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The deer that inhabit tourist sites are not domestic animals or pets, and there are no laws specifying how people should interact with such ‘semi-wild’ animals.

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Nara University of Education’s Professor Shinichi Watanabe, who specializes in environmental sociology and is familiar with measures to prevent damage by deer in Nara Prefecture. Municipalities that have been protecting deer populations as a tourism resource or natural asset are now increasingly struggling with how to manage overpopulation of the animals. (Yomiuri Shimbun)

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Just cull them – like with monkeys.

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how to manage overpopulation of the animals

Birth control.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/06/nyregion/providing-birth-control-to-deer-in-an-overrun-village.html

We are bound by suburban rules in dealing with them, and violence is not how we deal with neighbors we don’t like.

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The place with the highest deer damage is Mie prefecture, right next to Nara. Japan Times did a story on that. I'm afraid this problem will increase as the populations in those prefectures are dropping at an alarming rate, and so are the number of registered hunters.

I don't believe in simply culling animals. Instead, we could hunt them for food. Venision is an EXCELLENT meat.

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Yes! I wonder why it isn't sold here like beef,pork, whale etc?

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because there are not enough hunters to hunt those deer. personally I'd LOVE to get a hunting license and hunt my own venison. feed my family that way. Venison steak EVERY night

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