The law designates animals with a high risk of harming people as 'dangerous wildlife animals' that can be shot.

Japan on Friday enacted a revised law to allow municipalities to authorize "emergency shootings" by hunters when dangerous animals enter populated areas amid a rising number of bear attacks. The ...

Japan on Friday enacted a revised law to allow municipalities to authorise “emergency shootings” by hunters when dangerous animals enter populated areas amid a rising number of bear attacks.

Those round shells and long legs give Japanese spider crabs an arachnid-like look, hence their common name. These animals also have spines behind and in front of their short eye stalks.

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on Friday enacted a revised law to allow municipalities to authorize "emergency shootings" by hunters when dangerous animals enter populated areas amid a rising ...