内容摘要：The crowd reacts as the performer who goes by the name ‘the Coma Coma’, and an active serviceman of the Hroza battalion, performs during the Kvartyrynka music festival in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

The crowd reacts as the performer who goes by the name ‘the Coma Coma’, and an active serviceman of the Hroza battalion, performs during the Kvartyrynka music festival in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Past findings have indicated bobtails accounted for nearly 80% of the cats in Nagasaki, twice the occurrence of anywhere else in Japan.Japanese cats are believed to have come from China in the 6th century with Buddhist monks, serving as rat hunters to protect religious scriptures on ships.

Nagasaki bobtails have their roots in the Dutch East Indies when the city was the only foreign port during Japan’s closed era in the 17th to 19th centuries. They hunted rats to protect shipments on their way from Southeast Asia to Japan, according to Nagasaki cultural officials.A stray bobtail cat rests at a park in Nagasaki, southern Japan, on April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)A stray bobtail cat rests at a park in Nagasaki, southern Japan, on April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Soshin Yamamoto, a veterinarian and cat specialist, said the large population of bobtails in Nagasaki is likely the result of a genetic mutation that reproduced in a relatively isolated environment when the nation was shut up tight.“Having bobtails is no problem for most cats living a normal life, as long as they live near humans and aren’t jumping and running around like wild cats in a forest,” he said.

Veterinary surgeon Soshin Yamamoto holds his bobtail cat, Katsuo, at his practice in Tokyo on May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Mayuko Ono)

Veterinary surgeon Soshin Yamamoto holds his bobtail cat, Katsuo, at his practice in Tokyo on May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Mayuko Ono)Aubrey Plaza, from left, Charlie Day, and Margaret Qualley pose for photographers at the photo call for the film ‘Honey Dont!’' at the 78th international film festival in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

Aubrey Plaza poses for photographers at the photo call for the film ‘Honey Dont!’' at the 78th international film festival in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (Photo by Lewis Joly/Invision/AP)Aubrey Plaza poses for photographers at the photo call for the film ‘Honey Dont!’' at the 78th international film festival in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (Photo by Lewis Joly/Invision/AP)

Margaret Qualley poses for photographers at the photo call for the film ‘Honey Dont!’' at the 78th international film festival in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (Photo by Lewis Joly/Invision/AP)Margaret Qualley poses for photographers at the photo call for the film ‘Honey Dont!’' at the 78th international film festival in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (Photo by Lewis Joly/Invision/AP)