“Japan Comfort” in a doggy Doge world

The history of the Internet is memes, the history of memes is Japan -- and a certain Shiba Inu symbolizes it all.

This week, international media outlets were abuzz with reports of the passing of Kabosu, a Very Good Girl who went to that kennel in the sky on Sunday at the ripe old age of 18. That the death of a family’s pet would warrant global media coverage might surprise. But Kabosu was, and remains, a superstar of the Internet. Some are already hailing her as th…