I’ve missed the boat by about 30 mins… turns out 2/22 (or 22/2 in Europe) is Cat Day in Japan. Why? Well because each of the 2’s in the date can be read with the sound ‘nyan’ which is the sound cats make in Japanese.

Check a youtube.com video below of a news report detailing an exhibition of cat sculptures in Fukuoka to celebrate Cat Day, including a golden cat sculpture worth more than 3million Yen.

The information for all this comes from Japan Probe.

After a few months here it seems cats are quite common in Japan, though maybe not as much as dogs. One thing though, the majority of cats I’ve seen don’t seem to have tails. They’re either chopped off or totally cut… as far as I can remember cats also play another role in Japanese culture, though I can’t quite remember what right now and it’s way past my bed time so I’ll leave that for another time.

Anyways happy cat day!

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written by Laurent