Tama wears a stationmaster's cap of Wakayama Electric Railway at the Kishi station on the Kishigawa line in the city of Kinokawa, in Wakayama prefecture. Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images It’s goodbye ...

Employees of the Wakayama Electric Railway in Japan gathered on Sunday to mourn the loss of their beloved colleague Tama, who had served as stationmaster at the Kishi station in western Japan since ...

Times were tough for the tiny little train station in western Japan. The local Kishigawa Line was nearly bankrupt and the station’s entire staff had been laid off. The only creature left? A small ...

This was eventually going to happen, no? Near the east entrance of Shinjuku station, a digital display is now broadcasting an enormous calico cat. Similar ultra-realistic 3D displays have previously ...

TOKYO (AP) — Tama the stationmaster, Japan's feline star of a struggling local railway, was mourned by company officials and fans and elevated into a goddess at a funeral Sunday. The calico cat was ...

The calico prances and dozes on a 26-by-62-foot LED billboard in Tokyo. It has drawn crowds in real life and sparked joy on social media. By Hikari Hida and Mike Ives Ryoko Kikuchi was strolling home ...