NARA -- Nara Park in this western Japan city is enjoying a tourist renaissance in the post-COVID and weak yen era. Even more than the area's famed temples, the free-roaming deer in the park are ...

As peckish deer chase delighted tourists in Japan's temple-dotted Nara Park ... waste that threatens the animals' health. The ancient city of Nara is a major draw for the country's record influx ...

One such place is Nara, a city in central Japan. Within minutes of arriving, I spotted two sika deer casually lounging in the city centre, unfazed by the hundreds of commuters rushing past.

Tourists from around the world flock to this city in western Japan that is renowned for its historic temples and shrines, as well as 1,200 or so deer that wander around freely and mingle with ...

The sacred deer of Nara Park, Japan, are facing a serious threat due to plastic waste left behind by tourists. The park’s 1,300 sacred sika deer, revered for centuries, are creasingly suffering ...

Yezo deer, native to Hokkaido, are larger than those typically found on Japan’s main island of Honshu ... Kazuto Sakata, an official with the city’s environmental coexistence department ...