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On January 1st, this happened:

A few days later, in the news —

I don’t know whether Mr. Kirimoto has been reunited with his beloved cats since then, but the Noto quake disaster might become Japan’s Katrina moment in terms of accepting pets at evacuation centers.

If so, it would be too late for the man described here. Per Lingo Tube translation, he had a dog as well as a cat and refused to leave his pets. He died, and they recently found him:

Others were luckier, but they still live in uncertainty (no, that’s not Maru but it certainly looks like him!):

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Lagniappe:

Oky, it’s an ad, BUT we need to see something like this after the sadness above:

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Featured image: Anurak Pongpatimet/Shutterstock

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