Tama is the purr-fect antidote to financial gloom: study

As the economic might of Japan faces up to the global banking crisis a single cat has boosted the finances of a small Japanese city by millions of dollars, according to a study.

Tortoiseshell Tama is the master of the unmanned Kishi train station where she was born and raised, on the provincial Kishigawa Line.

But it is not her labours on the platform which have seen the cash rolling in.

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Tagged as: Banking, Cats, Economics, Finances, Japan, Kishi Train Station, Kishigawa Line, Train Stations, Trains

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