Man handed suspended prison term for killing deer in Nara Park with axe
Presiding judge said, ‘It was a brutal and vicious crime that disregarded the life of an animal’
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Year s 1st deer fawn born in Nara Park in western Japan The first deer fawn to be born this year in Nara Park, a popular tourist attraction in western Japan, was shown to the press Monday by a local preservation organization.
The newly born female fawn, who was spotted near her mother on Sunday, will be displayed at Rokuen, a facility in the park where deer are kept, from June 1 to 30. She weighs around 3,800 grams and is about 60 centimeters long.
She will be released into the park with other deer in late July, according to the Nara Deer Preservation Foundation.
Man arrested for killing protected wild deer in Nara, western Japan
A man was arrested Tuesday for killing a wild deer last month in Nara Prefecture in western Japan, in violation of the law that protects cultural properties, police said.
Hayato Yoshii, a 23-year-old construction worker from Mie Prefecture, central Japan, has admitted to killing the deer, which are protected under the cultural properties protection law, with an ax.
Investigators quoted him as saying, While I was playing with some deer, I got angry because one of them suddenly rammed my car. I was determined to kill it.
File photo taken in May 2020 shows deer in Nara. (Kyodo)