As peckish deer chase delighted tourists in Japan's temple-dotted Nara Park, a quiet but dedicated team of litter-pickers patrols the stone paths, collecting plastic waste that threatens the ...

Tourists from around the world flock to this city in western Japan that is renowned ... near the Kasuga Taisha shrine in Nara Park is home to 30 injured deer. In addition, around 240 deer that ...

Caption In Nara City, Japan, the sacred Japanese sika deer (Cervus nippon), protected for over a millennium, has recently seen a population surge around Nara Park.Genetic analysis reveals mixing ...

NARA--A man has been ... 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 ...

One such place is Nara, a city in central Japan. Within minutes of arriving, I spotted two sika deer casually lounging in the city centre, unfazed by the hundreds of commuters rushing past.

We’ve spent 5 weeks traveling around Japan in the spring and fall seasons, and during both trips we made sure to visit Nara ...

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It has many historic temples, shrines and burial mounds, and deer once believed to be divine ... Join us on a design hunt in Nara, where Japan's ancient landscape meets modern sensibilities.