TOKYO - Tama the stationmaster, Japan's feline star of a struggling local railway, was mourned by company officials and fans and elevated into a goddess at a funeral Sunday.
Associated Press: Japan mourns passing of Tama, the cat stationmaster
This file picture taken on May 22, 2008 shows a female cat named \"Tama\", known as cat stationmaster of Wakayama Electric Railway, at Kishi station on the Kishigawa line in the city of Kinokawa, in Wakayama prefecture, western Japan. Tama, a cat that served as nominal stationmaster on the obscure Japanese branchline, bringing thousands of extra tourists and spawning a merchandising gold rush has died at the age of 16, a railway spokesman said on June 25, 2015. AFP PHOTO / FILES / Toru YAMANAKA
