Japan's Cat Island - in pictures
An army of cats rules the remote Aoshima island in southern Japan’s Ehime prefecture. Curling up in abandoned houses or strutting about in a fishing village that is overrun with felines outnumbering humans six to one
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A cat jumps for food offered by a tourist as other cats beg for food
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Cats crowd the harbour embankment
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A cat jumps off a piano in the music room of a derelict school
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A local woman shoos away cats as she leaves her house
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A cat sits on a wall of a derelict school
Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters
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A cat carries some lunch
Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters
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Cats crowd around village nurse and Ozu city official Atsuko Ogata as she carries a bag of cat food to the designated feeding place
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A cat struts along an alley
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The print of a cat paw is embedded in concrete
Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters
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Cats sit on a wall overlooking the sea
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An overview shows the main part of the fishing village
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A cat leaps at the photographer to snatch his lunch snack. All photographs by Thomas Peter/Reuters
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