Aoshima is a dwindling fishing community of elderly people who live mainly off retirement benefits. The cats were originally brought over to the island to deal with mice plaguing fishing boats. But ...

Aoshima is a tiny, 0.2-square-mile (0.5 square kilometers) Japanese island in the Seto Inland Sea that is home to around 80 feral cats and three elderly people. It is the best known of 11 "cat islands ...

Mrs Kamimoto is an Aoshima islander who has been taking care of the 70 to 80 resident cats for many years. Photograph: Kazuma Obara/The Guardian Famous for felines that outnumber its humans, Aoshima ...

Aoshima, an island just off the coast in the northern part of Miyazaki Prefecture’s Nichinan Kaigan region, is designated a special natural monument as the home of 27 tropical and subtropical palm ...