The cat’s miaowTama, stationmaster of Kishi station and vice-president of the Wakayama Electric Railway, died on June 22nd, aged 16 AS SOON as she was born, Tama-chan (“Little Treasure”) knew she was divine. Most cats presume it; she was sure of it. Her immediate situation—whelped by a stray in the workers’ waiting room at Kishi station, on a rural railway line in western Japan—did not augur brigh