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Japanese People and Cats(2) It was seven million years ago that cats appeared on this planet. But they've only been domesticated for ten thousand years. They were domesticated by the Egyptians. At that time, the Egyptians began to farm earnestly using the flooding of the Nile River, but they were troubled by rats that gnawed at the crops. That is why cats were domesticated. Cats were highly revered in Egypt. Ancient Egyptian dynasties strictly prohibited cats from being taken abroad. But Phoenician merchants who were coming in and out of Egypt's ports sneaked the cat away. It was the same in any country worried about rats. Cats spread to Mediterranean beaches such as Greece and Rome, gradually expanding their territory. They came to China in the second century BC and to Japan with Buddhism around the sixth century. In general, cats are neither more devoted to people than dogs, nor are they more amiable. Compared to dogs, which were domesticated about 30,000 years ago, cats still retain many wild instincts because their history of domestication is short. So dogs were more popular than cats everywhere. In the late 1990s, when raising pets became popular, dogs outnumbered cats significantly. Then, in 2007, news broke that a cat named Tama was inaugurated as the honorary manager at a station in a rural village on the verge of demolition. This was a decisive reason for the explosive increase in the number of people raising cats. Tama died of acute renal failure in 2015 after serving as a stationmaster with great love for eight years. At this time, there were 3,000 mourners in memory of Tama. But Tama was just a trigger, and there was already a social atmosphere in which the Japanese preferred cats to dogs. The reasons for the preference for cats in Japan are as follows. The first cause is aging. As of 2022, Japan has 20 million seniors aged 75 and over, comprising 15% of the population. There are 12 million people over the age of 80, which is 10 percent. To keep a do
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This is a really hard question to answer. Because there are 1.4 billion people in 56 ethnic groups live in my country. and the large territory is covered with all kinds of landforms. In the northern part of this gerat country, there are a group of cute people who like wrestling very much, they think a strong body with lots of muscles is a symbol of beauty and strength. This is also the define of beauty formost of the people live on grassland, plateau or desert. After all, a strong person can easily survival tough environment. But for people who live in southern regions of my country, the environment is very enchanting and Rich in produce. we usually call them the hometown of fish and rice. So people who live there are really interested in art. A girl or woman who is well-educated and elegant usually will be considered as a typical beauty.
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Japanese people and the cat(1) Is there anyone who likes cats as much as the Japanese? Probably not. There are many special things in Japan, such as : (1) Manekineko, a cat that calls for blessings in each store, welcomes customers. (2) Dedicated apartment for cat owners are popular. (3) There is a shrine that serves cats as gods. (4) Cable television broadcasts only cats all day long. Cats appear as regular main characters in novels, movies, and animations in Japan, such as "I am a cat," "Rent-a-Cat,” and "The Cat's Repayment." Hello Kitty and Doraemon are famous cat characters not only in Japan but also in foreign countries. There is also the word "Nekonomics" in Japan. It's a newly coined word combining the Japanese word ‘neko,’ which means cat, and the English ‘eco-nomics.’ It refers to the economic effect created by the culture of pet cats. According to a report by Yomiuri Shimbun, the amount was about 2 trillion yen last year. However, cats were not popular in Japan from the beginning. According to a 1983 poll, 59 percent of Japanese people hated cats. Like in the other countries, dogs were definitely the number one pet in Japan rather than cats. That was the first time the results were overturned in a 2017 survey. In a survey of 50,000 people who breed pets, the number of people breeding cats (9.53 million) exceeds the number of people breeding dogs (8.92 million). What happened during this period?
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