Who became the stationmaster for the Kishi station in Kinokawa, Japan in 2007?

Kishi Station in Kinokawa, Japan, was threatening closure due to low ridership in 2004. Then a lucky calico cat came along to save the rural station on the Kishigawa Line of the Wakayama Electric Railway from obscurity.

Tama, a stray calico cat, was adopted in 2007 as Kishi Station's Super Station Master. The feline who sports a station master hat at a rakish angle has gone on to draw tens of thousands of visitors a year, keeping the train station in business for locals and reviving what was once a depressed point of the Wakayama Prefecture into a tourist boon.