How did a stray calico cat, handed a stationmaster’s cap at the unstaffed end of a dying Japanese branch line, lift its ridership by 17 per cent and generate an estimated 1.1 billion yen for the local economy? Saving Tips August 5, 2026 The answer is a calico cat called Tama, and the mechanism was a job title. On 5 January 2007 the…
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