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Friday, May 14, 2010

Tokyo Court: Orders to stop feeding the animals..[1247]

Former shogi great must compensate neighbors over stray cat doings

Ninth level shogi player Hifumi Kato. (Mainichi)

Ninth level shogi player Hifumi Kato. (Mainichi)

(Mainichi Japan) May 13, 2010

The Tokyo District Court ordered on Thursday former ninth level shogi great Hifumi Kato to pay his neighbors between 36,000 and 300,000 yen for damage done by stray cats he was feeding.

He was also ordered to stop feeding the animals.

Seventeen of Kato's neighbors in Mitaka, Tokyo, along with the property management association for their residences filed suit against the famed 70-year-old former shogi player calling for 6.45 million yen for damage caused by the strays' urinating and defecating in the area, as well as an order to stop feeding the animals.

According to the suit and other sources, Kato began feeding the stray cats by the front door and in the yard of his home in 1993.

At one point, 18 cats were gathering to be fed, and neighbors' properties were soon littered with garbage stolen by the cats and smelled of the animals' doings. Kato's neighbors and the property management association repeatedly warned Kato to stop giving food to the cats, which Kato apparently ignored.

Arbitration over the issue collapsed, leading the residents to file suit in November 2008.

During the trial, the plaintiffs pointed to the regulations governing tenants of their apartment complex -- which prohibits keeping pets that may cause annoyance to neighbors -- and to Kato's continued refusal to abide by requests for him to stop feeding the cats, leading to intolerable levels of damage.

Kato responded by saying that "Feeding the cats outside is not the same as keeping a pet. And even if the cats were temporarily under my care, cats are not troublesome animals.

The damage claims are for the most part groundless."

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