{"id":64136,"date":"2024-05-17T13:42:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T04:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/17\/tokyo-japan-raccoons-numbers-increase"},"modified":"2024-05-17T13:42:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T04:42:24","slug":"tokyo-battles-surge-of-destructive-raccoons-that-went-from-pet-to-pest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64136","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo battles surge of destructive raccoons that went from pet to pest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hotline set up in Japan\u2019s capital to report sightings of raccoons, which became popular as pets after success of 1970s TV anime series<\/p>\n<p>Having <a href=\"https:\/\/japannews.yomiuri.co.jp\/society\/general-news\/20220517-27555\/\">won the battle<\/a> to tackle Tokyo\u2019s population of giant, ravenous crows, the city\u2019s authorities are now embroiled in an even tougher campaign: to rein in another animal menace, the North American raccoon.<\/p>\n<p>The number of raccoons caught in the capital every year has increased fivefold over the past decade, according to media reports, amid concern about the damage the animals are inflicting on the local ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/17\/tokyo-japan-raccoons-numbers-increase\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hotline set up in Japan\u2019s capital to report sightings of raccoons, which became popular as pets after success of 1970s TV anime seriesHaving won the battle to tackle Tokyo\u2019s population of giant, ravenous crows, the city\u2019s authorities are now embroiled &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,719,88,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-invasive-species","category-japan","category-wildlife"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64137,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64136\/revisions\/64137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}