In this short video I tell the origin story of Maneki Neko, the famous Japanese lucky cat, while showing my own Lego version.

All over the world, cats come with different beliefs and thoughts. Some say cats are evil and bring with them bad fortune and ill luck, while others say that they are bringers of love and fortune, and ...

Cincinnati’s Lucky Cat Museum is the only place in the country that publicly displays more than 2,000 maneki-neko, a type of Japanese cat figurine. Essex Studios in Walnut Hills hides the Lucky Cat ...

Walk into any store, restaurant or even doctor’s office, and customers are most likely to find a Maneki Neko beckoning for attention. Company President Robert Iida believes that the lucky cat’s ...

If you're a cat lover, and are fond of Japan's beckoning lucky Maneki-Neko cat figurines, you should visit Gotokuji Temple, home of a thousand Maneki-Neko cats. But don't take any of them home with ...

Maneki-neko, translated as beckoning cat but also known as lucky cat or welcome cat, is recognizable internationally, often found behind cash registers of restaurants and retail outlets – and also in ...

The lucky feline’s origins are shrouded in mystery. Quite a few tales exist, with the most common one involving a samurai who took shelter from the rain beneath a big tree across from a temple. The ...

Kittens are adorable little fuzzballs, but one calico Persian kitten named Carrot who looks like a red panda is taking her ...

Both of the Hatsune Miku figures feature the Vocaloid figure in outfits inspired by Maneki Neko lucky cats seen in Japan. Each one features three face plates. The original one has a standard one, one ...

A Nationals fan presumably distraught by his team's 3-6 start tried to quietly leave a good luck omen on top of one of baseball's most sacred landmarks. But now the cat's out of the bag. According to ...