Record no. of people injured by wild deer in Nara park, 80% being foreign tourists

The number of people injured by wild deer at Nara Park in western Japan, a major tourist attraction, has hit a record high 200 in the current fiscal year, with foreign visitors feeding the animals accounting for some 80 percent of those wounded, the Nara prefectural government said Tuesday.The number of those injured has quadrupled over the five years to fiscal 2018, and the Nara government last April began offering multilingual tips on how to safely feed the deer inhabiting the 600-hectare park, which encompasses the famous Todaiji Temple and Kasugataisha Shrine.The more than 1,000 deer th…READ FULL ARTICLE