The move follows a video of a tourist in Nara’s main park kicking one of the animals, considered sacred in the ancient city.

Beloved deer living in a historic Japanese park face growing dangers from litter left behind by tourists. Now, officials are rethinking decades-old waste management policies to protect the culturally ...

Wild deer droppings in Nara Park have long been affectionately ... That’s a record 99.9 percent drop from April 2019, according to the Japan Tourism Agency. Takaki immediately noticed 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 ...

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 ...

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.

Nick "Nmplol" has been posting hate threads about a deer supposedly eating cherry blossoms in an apparent reference to the ...

Nara is a magical escape just an hour away from Osaka and Kyoto, perfect for a Singaporean visitor seeking a break from the ...

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.

Herald’s amateur photo contest winners for March capture quiet moments in the natural world. Dave Davis of Inverness takes ...

We’ve spent 5 weeks traveling around Japan in the spring and fall seasons ... It has a fantastic location nestled within Nara’s popular deer park, and you can feed the sika deer on your ...