When nature calls, Masana Izawa has followed the same routine for more than 50 years: heading out to the woods in Japan, dropping his pants and doing as bears do. "We survive by eating other ...

Phys. Chem. Res., Tokyo, vol. 18), by T. Terada and T. Utigasaki, states that the annual loss due to forest fires in Japan is second in magnitude only to that suffered by the United States.

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When nature calls, Masana Izawa has followed the same routine for more than 50 years: heading out to the woods in Japan, dropping his pants and doing as bears do. "We survive by eating other living ...

Egocentric' - Izawa is a former nature photographer who specialised ... and defecating outside is banned in Japan. But since Izawa owns the forest around his centuries-old house, he has not ...