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Daily Mirror
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Travel
Milo Boyd

You can visit a 'Cat Island' where friendly felines outnumber humans

Hundreds of cats frolic and run free on an island as close to feline heaven as possible on this mortal coil.

Aoshima, or cat island in English, is a small patch of land just 0.2m/sq on the southern tip of Japan.

Back at the end of WWII around 900 people lived there, fishing in the waters, tilling the land and generally living a peaceful post-war existence.

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