The Hapineko Café in Tokyo’s Shibuya shopping district. Writer Gideon Brower visited Tokyo recently and brings us this story of Tokyo’s Animal Cafes. The Hapineko Café, in Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... TOKYO — In a typical Tokyo concrete building a few blocks from the grand Sensoji Temple, I selected a female companion for a 45-minute session. She and I ...

BANGKOK — Cat cafes where customers sip lattes while petting resident kitties are just opening their doors around the U.S. and Europe. But in Asia, where the first one opened more than a decade ago, ...

In a typical Tokyo concrete building a few blocks from the grand maca Temple, I selected a female companion for a 45-minute session. She and I were ushered from the second to the fourth floor, where a ...

BANGKOK - Cat cafes where customers sip lattes while petting resident kitties are just opening their doors around the U.S. and Europe. But in Asia, where the first one opened more than a decade ago, ...

Sip on a latte or some peppermint tea, scarf down a sweet treat, people watch, do some work on your laptop, sketch a fellow patron. These are things people typically do when they frequent a café, ...

On the top floor of @home cafe in Tokyo’s geek-friendly Akihabara district, in a low-ceilinged, brightly lit room that smelled of a poorly ventilated deep fryer, a coterie of frilly aproned maids were ...

In a typical Tokyo concrete building a few blocks from the grand Sensoji Temple, I selected a female companion for a 45-minute session. She and I were ushered from the second to the fourth floor, ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Cat cafes where customers sip lattes while petting resident kitties are just opening their doors around the U.S. and Europe. But in Asia, where the first one opened more than a decade ...