On Japan’s Tashirojima, around 200 cats roam an island with fewer than 50 residents. Inside an abandoned schoolyard, cats now gather where children once played. Discover how fishing, silk, tourism, earthquakes, and demographic collapse created a famous cat island whose human community is slowly disappearing.
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On Japan’s Tashirojima, around 200 cats roam an island with fewer than 50 residents. Inside an abandoned schoolyard, cats now gather where children once played. Discover how fishing, silk, tourism, earthquakes, and demographic collapse created a famous cat island whose human community is slowly disappearing.
#Tashirojima #CatIsland #Japan #AbandonedJapan #RuralJapan #JapaneseCulture #IslandLife #TravelDocumentary