A popular tourist attraction in Japan known as the "rabbit island" is seeing a surge in predators. Tourist food leftovers are drawing rats, crows, and wild boars from neighboring islands. The 900 ...
Ōkunoshima is a small island in Japan's Inland Sea that's become a tourist destination for one reason: it's crawling with friendly rabbits. Hundreds of them. They hop up to visitors expecting snacks.
Okunoshima is not unique among the some 3,000 islands dotting Japan’s Seto Inland Sea, between Hiroshima prefecture and the island of Shikoku. Neither the biggest nor the smallest, the tiny land mass ...
A Japanese court sentenced a 25-year-old man to one year in prison, suspended for three years, on Monday for abusing and killing rabbits on Okuno Island in Hiroshima Prefecture, Kyodo News reported.