Japanese superstitions

my sister's doing a project on this for school, and asked me to make a post about this:

is the superstition of walking under ladders or a black cat crossing in front of you just a western thing? do variations of this exist in Japan?

for example, my heritage is indo-canadian, so I've seen both the ladder/black cat superstition mentioned commonly in pop culture in Canada. comparatively, in India, there's just a general superstition of any cat crossing a path right in front, and nothing really with ladders.

by ultmjwatson