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Japan castle s famous feline owner stamps the purrfect gift on Cat Day The Mainichi © The Mainichi Sanjuro, the cat owner of Bitchu Matsuyama Castle, is seen looking at a stamp bearing an illustration of himself, at the castle in Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, on Feb. 22, 2021. (Mainichi/Kazuki Iwamoto)
TAKAHASHI, Okayama The tourism association of this western Japan city began selling stamps of Bitchu Matsuyama Castle with an illustration of its owner, Sanjuro the cat, in celebration of Cat Day on Feb. 22.
The stamps are sold on a sheet of paper measuring 10.6 centimeters in width and 14.8 centimeters in height. They include a cat s paw print and a picture of Sanjuro showing his belly. The sheets cost 300 yen ($2.84) each, and are sold only at the castle s ticket office.
Japan insurance agency aims to make lightweight shoes for disasters through crowdfunding
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Japanese miracle cow who lived 2 decades after being swept out to sea honored in bronze The Mainichi © The Mainichi The statue of Genki-kun the bull overlooks central Shoo, Okayama Prefecture, on Feb. 6, 2021. (Mainichi/Kazuki Iwamoto)
SHOO, Okayama A statue of a bull who returned home alive after being swept onto the shores of an island some 90 kilometers away by typhoon flooding was unveiled here on Feb. 6. Genki-kun the bull was born on a farm in Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, in 1998. In October that year, when he was about six months old, the nearby Yoshii River burst its banks during a typhoon, flooding the farm and carrying Genki-kun out into Japan s Seto Inland Sea. Several days later, the young bull was found alive on Ki Island, about 90 kilometers away, though many other cows had died or disappeared.