Japan to survey animal cafes over hygiene, welfare concerns

TOKYO: Japan plans to probe popular animal cafes, where visitors can interact with anything from cats to capybaras, following concerns about hygiene and the creatures' welfare, authorities said on Thursday (Aug 27).Japan has hundreds of cafes where campaigners say animals are sometimes kept in cramped spaces, and that

Japan plans to look into popular animal cafes, where visitors can interact with anything from cats to capybaras, following concerns about hygiene and the creatures’ welfare, authorities said on Thursday. Japan has hundreds of the cafes where campaigners say animals are sometimes kept in cramped spaces, and that their p

TOKYO -- Japan's Ministry of the Environment will begin a survey as early as September into the actual conditions at "animal cafes" where customers ca