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For many years now I have been hammering on about Japan’s runaway population of deer and wild boar, and about the huge damage they cause — especially to agriculture, silviculture, forestry and endangered wild plants in national parks.

In previous articles for The Japan Times, I have also bemoaned the nationwide waste of nutritious, healthy meat due to hunters being paid bounties to kill wild boar and deer and hand in their tails as proof — but they’re then left free to bury or burn the carcasses, which are such an abundant protein resource.

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