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Because in Japan, neko (cats) are regarded as both auspicious and fearful. The way cats wash their faces look as if they are inviting good luck, so cats with that gesture are represented in an auspicious ornament as maneki-neko (a beckoning cat). In restaurants and other business in which customer turnover is important, it is customary to display a figure of a maneki-neko (招き猫.

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