Japan's rapidly aging workforce may be able to draw some encouragement from a cat that continues to attract tourists from around Asia in her role as station master at a small train station—despite advancing years.

Tama, who turns 15 in April, continues to attract tens of thousands of tourists each year after seven years on the job at the Kishi station in Wakayama, western Japan. Her appointment helped to turn around a rural area that had been hit, like many parts of Japan, by a declining population.

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