Togawa Yukio was a Japanese novelist known as a leading writer of “animal literature,” stories about animals. A former newspaper reporter, he won the Naoki Prize for Koyasu-inu Monogatari.
In 1965, on Iriomote Island in Okinawa Prefecture, he heard local stories of a “wildcat” and obtained a pelt and skull on the spot. These specimens were delivered to researchers and led to the discovery of the Iriomote cat.
