the person I met

on the visit I made just a week or

so ago.

When the evacuation order was made

10 years ago, he decided

to stay behind

because he wanted to rescue cats

abandoned by neighbors in the

chaotic situation.

Since then, his house

in this area was

converted as a cat shelter and

he has taken care of more than

60 cats.

And he keeps rescuing cats,

which could be a second or third

generation of the abandoned cats 10

years ago.

And now his house

is in very poor condition.

So with no running water, no

toilet and the world has started

to leave, but he could not stop

taking care of cats and dogs to

rescue.

So I asked him why,

'Why do you keep taking care

of the cats?'

He said he was shocked

to find

pets in abandoned houses

when there was demolition.

So

that memory and then

the sight of the scenery he saw made

him devote himself to

rescuing cats and dogs.

And when I met him, he devoted

his full day to

feeding the cats and cleaning the

cat cages.

I met him in the early morning and

then went through everything, it was

night.

And then he said he wants to be

there to take care of the last

one.

He has to get the water from the

mountain stream.

And then he

is running a small construction

company.

He's just running his shelter

without any donations.

So he says he

spends seven thousand

U.S. dollars a month and that

he had been doing that for ten

years.

And also another interesting thing

is that he loved every animal

living in that restricted area.

So in the night in the sunset time,

I saw that about 20

wild boars came from his house

because he kept feeding,

you know, the wild

boars.

So the wild boars know that

that guy Kato

will feed them again every night.

But the farmers close the

wild boars a pest and also blame

them for wrecking empty homes.

But my feeling is that he really

loved all the animals.

And my feeling is that he's more

like a king of his own kingdom

of animals.