The hunting season opened in mid-November, and wild boar dishes are now being ... the city receives boar meat from around western Japan. Maekawa, a Japanese cuisine restaurant in the center ...

FUKUCHI, Fukuoka Prefecture—On a morning when the thermometer registered a chilly 6 degrees, wild boar hunter Yasohachi Hirano's breath made a misty cloud in the air. Stepping gingerly from ...

The groups also called for action on eight other issues, including bolstered regulations covering animal performances, ending ...

Japan's cabinet approved a bill Friday allowing ... Currently, shooting animals such as bears or wild boar in residential areas is forbidden. Even when bears hole themselves up in populated ...

I’m not watching the news,” people say. “I can’t stand it. If I have to hear about” — say, for example — “the radioactive wild boars of Fukushima one more time, I’ll take the bridge!” Then, all at ...

Japan's cabinet approved a bill Friday allowing hunters to shoot bears in populated ... Currently, shooting animals such as bears or wild boar in residential areas is forbidden. Even when bears hole ...

The children were not injured, and the boar was eventually shot ... Hong Kong and Japan have also taken steps to reduce their wild pig populations.