The Hapineko Café in Tokyo’s Shibuya shopping district. Writer Gideon Brower visited Tokyo recently and brings us this story of Tokyo’s Animal Cafes. The Hapineko Café, in Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... TOKYO — In a typical Tokyo concrete building a few blocks from the grand Sensoji Temple, I selected a female companion for a 45-minute session. She and I ...

BANGKOK — Cat cafes where customers sip lattes while petting resident kitties are just opening their doors around the U.S. and Europe. But in Asia, where the first one opened more than a decade ago, ...

Reporting from TOKYO — Pity the poor office worker. It’s midafternoon, and taking a break probably means sneaking off to the vending machine for a soda, or at best slipping out for coffee. But what ...

Sip on a latte or some peppermint tea, scarf down a sweet treat, people watch, do some work on your laptop, sketch a fellow patron. These are things people typically do when they frequent a café, ...

In a typical Tokyo concrete building a few blocks from the grand maca Temple, I selected a female companion for a 45-minute session. She and I were ushered from the second to the fourth floor, where a ...

BANGKOK — Cat cafes where customers sip lattes while petting resident kitties are just opening their doors around the U.S. and Europe. But in Asia, where the first one opened more than a decade ago, ...

On the top floor of @home cafe in Tokyo’s geek-friendly Akihabara district, in a low-ceilinged, brightly lit room that smelled of a poorly ventilated deep fryer, a coterie of frilly aproned maids were ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the U.S., hanging out in a cafe with animals is such an exotic concept that people can’t get enough of it. Denver now has a cat cafe. A pop-up cat cafe in ...

Sip on a latte or some peppermint tea, scarf down a sweet treat, people watch, do some work on your laptop, sketch a fellow patron. These are things people typically do when they frequent a café, ...

BANGKOK – Cat cafes where customers sip lattes while petting resident kitties are just opening their doors around the U.S. and Europe. But in Asia, where the first one opened more than a decade ago, ...