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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’ Special Reports By Tokyo Reporter Staff A stroll through Takeshita-dori reveals big, bulbous lettering of a variety of colors, painted on the shutters of one shop after another By Tokyo Reporter Staff During the investigation leading up to her arrest, Saki Sudo said she 'knew nothing' about her husband's death Coronavirus in Japan By Tokyo Reporter Staff A stroll through Takeshita-dori reveals big, bulbous lettering of a variety of colors, painted on the shutters of one shop after another
A deer in Nara Park in November 2020 (Asahi Shimbun file photo) NARA--A man has been arrested here under suspicion of violating the Cultural Assets Preservation Law for killing a deer--God’s sacred messenger according to ancient myth--an act that once was a capital offense in Japan. Nara prefectural police on March 2 arrested Hayato Yoshii, 23, a construction assistant in Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture, in connection with the death of a deer last month. Police said sometime around Feb. 7, Yoshii smashed a sharp, thick object against the head of a doe estimated to be 11 years old, at Nara Park, a major tourist attraction in the city home to many deer.
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)