Japan's raccoon infestation has gotten considerably worse over the last decade, multiple Japanese news sources are reporting. Nearly 1,300 raccoons were captured during the 2022 fiscal year ...

A cute anime about a racoon called Rascal has caused Japan one very big ... ‘Our traps are sometimes broken as raccoons are also desperate to live. Only a fraction is actually caught, so ...

They are believed to be the first wild raccoons in Japan. In the late 1970s, an animation series based on Thomas Sterling North’s children’s novel “Rascal” became a big hit in Japan.