About The Traveling Cats
This is the story of A&S CEO Daisuke Nagasawa and Director Tomomi Nagasawa, who have spent many years traveling all over Japan with their cats. The photos and stories from those journeys have been published in three books.
All of the cats were adopted as rescues. Daikichi, who shared those journeys, sadly passed away in 2021, but today Fuku-chan and Daichi serve as A&S’s “cat employees,” bringing comfort to the team and helping with the company’s PR.
As a company, A&S is also committed to supporting rescue cats through donations and other activities.
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Our Rescue Cat Initiatives
Through The Traveling Cats, A&S has worked as a company to support rescue cats and raise awareness.
- Dec 2018Announced donation of photo book royaltiesTo coincide with the release of our photo book from Ikaros Publications, we announced on our official blog our plan to donate the royalties to animal charities.
- Aug 2019Supported the charity event “Neko to Shiawase Days”We held a photo panel exhibition and talk show at this Daimaru Umeda event, with part of the sales donated to the NPO Osaka Neko Club.
- Mar 2020Donated proceeds to a rescue cat caféTogether with the editor-in-chief of Neko Tomo Shimbun and others, we delivered proceeds from photo books and other items sold at the February 2020 photo exhibition “Neko (Kimi) ga Ite Yokatta 2020” to the rescue cat café “Neko no Iru Ie Yasuragi.”
- 2020Special judge for “Nyanbassador”Served as a special judge for a project that raised donations toward rescue cats’ medical costs.
[New Release] 12 Stories of the Traveling Cats now available
2025-7-18
12 Stories of the Traveling Cats: Conversations Between Cats and Animals, as Told by Heidi has been released by East Press.
[Event] Panel exhibition & talk show at Daimaru Umeda in August
2019-7-10
We’ll be appearing with a panel exhibition and talk show at Daimaru Umeda’s “Neko to Shiawase Days” event.