Walk into any store, restaurant or even doctor’s office, and customers are most likely to find a Maneki Neko beckoning for attention. Company President Robert Iida believes that the lucky cat’s ...

If you're a cat lover, and are fond of Japan's beckoning lucky Maneki-Neko cat figurines, you should visit Gotokuji Temple, home of a thousand Maneki-Neko cats. But don't take any of them home with ...

Cincinnati’s Lucky Cat Museum is the only place in the country that publicly displays more than 2,000 maneki-neko, a type of Japanese cat figurine. Essex Studios in Walnut Hills hides the Lucky Cat ...

Both of the Hatsune Miku figures feature the Vocaloid figure in outfits inspired by Maneki Neko lucky cats seen in Japan. Each one features three face plates. The original one has a standard one, one ...

A Nationals fan presumably distraught by his team's 3-6 start tried to quietly leave a good luck omen on top of one of baseball's most sacred landmarks. But now the cat's out of the bag. According to ...

The maneki-neko goes by many names. The waving cat, the lucky cat, the beckoning cat. There are even more variations in its meaning. It’s generally believed a lifted left paw invites success in ...

The Maneki Neko, or "beckoning cat," is one of the most common lucky charms in Japan. Also known as the Welcoming Cat, Lucky Cat, Money Cat or Fortune Cat, it is often made of porcelain or ceramic, ...

Among the surprises at this year’s Otakon was a talk on Japanese culture that, on the surface at least, had little to do with anime. But as religious anthropologist Kelly Nelson, alias Akuja, ...