In Japan, Feb. 22 is National Cat Day — the Japanese words for two and meow sound alike, so 2/22 is meow-meow-meow day. But for American publishers, every day seems worth celebrating as Japanese cat day. An apparently limitless supply of translations featuring felines on the cover now lines the shelves of any given bookstore.

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The latest litter of Japanese cat-themed books arrived this year as the trend shows no sign of abating. There is “Welcome to the Kokoro Cat Clinic,” “The Messenger Cat Cafe” and “Every Bookshop Needs a Cat” — not to be confused with “The Nine Lives of a Bookshop Cat.” The cats aren’t confined to any one genre: Fans can pick up a stray Japanese crime novel, like “A Game of Cat and Killer.”

The most recent offering is a new literary memoir: Haruki Murakami’s “Abandoning a Cat.”

Murakami, long considered Japan’s sorest snub for the Nobel Prize in Literature, is not merely hopping on the fuzzy bandwagon.…