• Cats walk along the embankment as a man fishes on Aoshima Island in Ehime prefecture in southern Japan. Thomas Peter / Reuters
    Cats walk along the embankment as a man fishes on Aoshima Island in Ehime prefecture in southern Japan. Thomas Peter / Reuters
  • Cats crowd around village nurse and Ozu city official Atsuko Ogata as she carries a bag of cat food to the designated feeding place on Aoshima Island in Ehime prefecture in southern Japan. Thomas Peter / Reuters
    Cats crowd around village nurse and Ozu city official Atsuko Ogata as she carries a bag of cat food to the designated feeding place on Aoshima Island in Ehime prefecture in southern Japan. Thomas Peter / Reuters
  • A local woman shoos away cats as she leaves her house on Aoshima Island in Ehime prefecture in southern Japan. Thomas Peter / Reuters
    A local woman shoos away cats as she leaves her house on Aoshima Island in Ehime prefecture in southern Japan. Thomas Peter / Reuters
  • A cat carries a fish on Aoshima Island in Ehime prefecture in southern Japan. Thomas Peter / Reuters
    A cat carries a fish on Aoshima Island in Ehime prefecture in southern Japan. Thomas Peter / Reuters
  • Cats crowd the harbour on Aoshima Island in the Ehime prefecture in southern Japan. Thomas Peter / Reuters
    Cats crowd the harbour on Aoshima Island in the Ehime prefecture in southern Japan. Thomas Peter / Reuters

See the Japanese island that has become overrun with an army of cats — in pictures

Olga Camacho

March 03, 2015

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An army of cats rules the remote island in southern Japan, 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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