HONOLULU (KITV4) -- A Japanese cat café is in the works at Ala Moana Center, KITV4 has learned. A Japanese-based company has recently filed public documents to operate a cat café at a ground level ...

A CNN New Year's Eve remote with John Mayer live from a cat cafe in Japan was nearly 8 minutes long. For most of it — at one point for nearly 2 minutes total — anchor Anderson Cooper was in stitches.

For the uninitiated, cat cafés have been around since 1998, when the first cat-themed café opened in Taiwan–a country that, unsurprisingly, is also home to a popular cat village. Despite its origins ...