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00:01We're heading to a small mountain town in western Japan.
00:15Aha! We suddenly run into wild boars.
00:22Then some monkeys dart in front of us.
00:26A whole lot of them.
00:32This used to be a thriving agricultural community.
00:37In the end, there were no people who lived there.
00:42And then the wild boars grew up.
00:45And then the wild boars came.
00:53These fields are overrun by wild creatures.
00:58More and more fields that were protected by generations of farmers are being abandoned due to damage by animals.
01:12According to a national survey, nearly 3,200 Japanese villages could disappear.
01:28Many areas across Japan that suffer from nuisance animals turn to this person.
01:33Nuisance wildlife researcher Masane, or Anti-Masa.
01:40Masane is an expert in dealing with so-called nuisance wildlife, and known for practical advice that's easy to implement.
01:48Come on.
01:51.
01:51.
01:51.
01:51.
01:54There are only two things around the corner.
02:00I do not like a one-way.
02:13I don't know if one-way looks like a one-way.
02:18If the one-way looks like a one-way,
02:20the one-way looks like a one-way.
02:24Then the person who walks here to the fox,
02:28he will be scared of the fox.
02:33Then he will take the fox and take the fox.
02:42He will be able to cut the fox and cut the fox.
02:45He will be able to cut the fox.
02:50Looking at things from the animals' point of view requires a big shift in thinking.
03:25The main players in Masane's efforts to control animal damage are the residents themselves.
03:35There were some difficulties at first, but by acting together, they overcame them.
03:45Then this town that was losing population began to regain vitality.
03:51The number of young newcomers increased, bringing new life.
03:58Once again, there was hope for the future.
04:03They've turned the damage caused by wild animals into good fortune.
04:08This is an extraordinary story about an ordinary mountain village in Japan.
04:32What is the human cost of damage caused by wild animals?
04:37The town of Misaki in Okayama Prefecture offers one example.
04:46With a serious influx of nuisance animals, the population here is dropping faster than anywhere else in the prefecture.
04:58The busy farming season has arrived, but so have some uninvited guests.
05:13Wild boars are overrunning the rice fields.
05:17...
05:19...
05:28...
05:49Nobuhara Ryoji is a rice farmer.
05:52He stretched a protective fence around his field, but...
06:03私たちは竹部をポンピングします。手が削れているところは漬けてられたのですか
06:09?そうですね。穴をあげて、頭を突き込んで
06:16少し入ったりします。うーん…私の考えでは
06:20ベストではないでしょうが私は主主のようにисаにすれば まだ妻にとっては、
06:22launches もう一つ上手があろうかもしれません。
06:26wspól
06:27This is the nature of human beings, usually.
06:34Now, over here, what happened?
06:42This is all that remains.
06:46This is all that remains.
06:47This is all that remains.
06:59She was going to pickle the melon and send it to her grandchildren.
07:08The wild animals not only ruin the crops, they also rob the farmers of their joy of life.
07:19According to a recent survey, over the past five years,
07:2420% of the farmers in this town decided to quit.
07:28Oh, it's so busy.
07:35Look at this.
07:37You can eat everything like this.
07:40What is this?
07:43You can't just laugh.
07:48You can't, you won't.
07:51I think you've won't win.
07:54You won't win.
07:55You won't win.
07:55You won't win.
07:56I think you won't win.
07:57If you've won't win, I'd like to go to study.
08:07This is where Masane comes into the picture.
08:14Lately, there's been a flood of SOS calls from all over Japan.
08:24For many years, Masane was a team leader at a national and prefectural research institution.
08:35After retirement, Masane started using this nickname instead of her real name, Inoue Masateru.
08:46In spring 2021, Masane was invited to the town of Misaki in Okayama Prefecture.
08:57At the end of their rope, the town residents have gotten together.
09:03They set up over 250 kilometers of fencing to keep animals from invading their fields.
09:10But the damage has not abated.
09:19The town's mayor speaks first.
10:10So, there's a fish that came out.
10:15At the beginning, we had a year to 1 or 2 years ago,
10:19but gradually, the number of fish has increased.
10:22There were only a fish that didn't exist, but
10:24we looked at it as a child.
10:28There were 5 fish or 6 fish.
10:31So, what happened was what happened?
10:35What happened?
10:37I thought it was not a problem.
10:39If you look at it,
10:43I was able to make my farm
10:47and make a fish that came out.
10:52So, the bad thing is not a fish,
10:55but a man who made a fish that came out.
10:59It's just a human.
11:03Masane also says they need to rethink
11:06who should be in charge of their abatement efforts.
11:09what will the fish do?
11:10The assassin's main focus is the farmer.
11:15The fish that came out is theaffights.
11:16So, the fish was made by the farm,
11:19and the fish were made by millions of years.
11:22The fish was made in charge,
11:24but neither did the fish drive by…
11:27this is the fish're able to give them.
11:34I am a fish that will not be enough.
11:37to be able to save theese.
11:39I hope to be brave and able to be myself.
11:45Therefore, I will not be able to do something for the help of the homeless.
11:51We have been here at the ponderance of the service for the homeless children.
11:57The time we started having to be able to make it possible,
12:00It's not a problem.
12:04It's not a problem.
12:07It's not a problem.
12:09It's a problem.
12:10It's a problem.
12:12It's a problem.
12:13But I don't want to put that in place.
12:14I was just a doubt.
12:19I'm not sure if I had to think about it.
12:21I don't want to think about it.
12:26Masane began providing practical guidance in summer 2021.
12:33This is Yuasa Mariko's field, where her pickling melons and watermelons have been eaten by wild
12:39animals.
12:50A camera captures wild boars devouring plants in broad daylight.
13:19Masane promptly discovers what led to the damage.
13:22The owners were too old to harvest the persimmons, so the abandoned trees have become a feeding
13:29ground for wild animals.
13:32The animals have also developed an appetite for the plants in Mariko's field.
13:42The same things happening in neighboring fields.
14:09Vegetable waste, like these onions, has been discarded here unthinkingly.
14:14From the animals' viewpoint, it's too good to pass up.
14:24The animals have been replaced by wild animals.
14:28They have been replaced by wild animals, so they can get bred.
14:32If humans can change the wild animals into the wild animals, it can be changed.
14:33They have been replaced by wild animals.
14:39In the mountains, the猿 has made the doughnuts.
14:44I'm happy.
14:45They're all over there.
14:50I'm happy.
14:52Masane has visited the rice fields of Nobuhara Ryoji and others.
14:57Their crops have been ravaged.
15:09The wild boars have trampled all over the field.
15:17They dig underneath the fence he's built and force their way in.
15:23Ryoji can't keep up with the repairs.
15:42Masane found an abandoned field next to the rice paddies where the wild boars go to hide.
15:51There's no one here.
15:56There's a rocket or rocket rocket.
15:59There's no one here.
16:03There's no one here.
16:04There's no one here.
16:06There's no one here.
16:07But this is a way to go to the right.
16:16A camera captures a boar in action.
16:20They've made a home for themselves on this abandoned farmland.
16:31There are many places nearby where animals can feed and hide.
16:36These factors inevitably lead to animal damage.
16:40But Masane feels that another factor is even more important.
16:45At one point, they are not even more important to me.
16:52but the tolerance of the power of the world.
16:58In the heat of the world,
17:04they have never been able to hide the bones of children.
17:08They have never been able to hide the bones of the land.
17:11They're not able to hide the bones of the air.
17:11I can never be able to hide them,
17:13but they are not able to hide it.
17:15If you come and get together, you'll be able to get out of the city.
17:22Now, let's turn to the place where Masane lives, Misato in Shimane Prefecture.
17:29The Gounokawa, the region's biggest river, runs through the town,
17:34which has a population of some 4,400 residents.
17:49Masane came to this town 18 years ago.
17:52This is the field where Masane got together with local residents
17:56to consider how to protect their crops.
18:01Let me tell you the truth.
18:03The secret is two things.
18:07It's great.
18:19The field abounds with things that anyone can do to combat animal damage.
18:27For example, there's a no-planting zone within 2 meters of the electric fence.
18:35There are many people who have a little bit.
18:38You've got a little bit at the ark.
18:43We can't move this at the ark.
18:49We can't move this or just move this into the ark.
18:51If I want to go to the ark or Eleanor,
18:54when I think it's a species and a group of animals,
18:58it doesn't look the same as a species.
19:01I don't see the rivers of the peaks.
19:02Fruit trees like mandarin oranges should be cut low to about human height so that even older people can harvest
19:10the fruit.
19:10Then there's less for the animals to eat.
19:33If you can't get the fruit, you can't get the fruit.
19:38If you can't get the fruit, you can't get the fruit.
19:43Masane says residents should not depend only on hunters and fences, but make themselves the main players in keeping the
19:51animals away.
19:54At first, these women found the methods confusing.
19:58They were completely different from those they'd used before.
20:04But as they began to get results, they put their trust in Masane.
20:17They now look forward to bringing the vegetables they've grown with Masane's help to the farmer's market.
20:32The market has been operating once a week for over ten years.
20:45Masane and the other residents have revitalized the bonds that were being lost due to the town's depopulation.
20:55They bring dishes they've prepared to the market and have lively conversations while they enjoy them.
21:03Vitality and smiling faces have returned to the community.
21:10Masane.
21:10Masane has returned.
21:12Yes!
21:15Thank you!
21:17Yes!
21:17Thank you!
21:18Yes!
21:21Yes!
21:22Yes!
21:22Yes!
21:23Yes!
21:26Yes!
21:27Discovering this town was a big turning point in Masane's life.
21:36Masane came out to the residence about her real self, which had been hidden until then.
21:50Masane was able to be her true self.
21:59Masane's life in my mind.
22:05Masane's life in my mind.
22:06I was a 100% woman in my mind.
22:14So, I was going to go to work only on a man.
22:19But I went to the side and I was like,
22:23I'm going to go to the side of my life.
22:29I was going to go to the side of my life.
22:33But I was going to go to the side of my life.
22:37and they can't change their relationship.
22:40They can't change their relationship.
22:42If you ask them,
22:46they can't change their relationship.
22:48They can't change their relationship.
22:58In August 2021,
23:01an air of tension hung over the rice fields in Misaki.
23:05It would soon be time to harvest.
23:13Ryōji is fearful that boars will raid his rice fields.
23:20With the help of other farmers,
23:22he's decided to cut the grass and shrubs
23:24in the area where the boars like to hide.
23:29Since putting up a fence around the rice field five years ago,
23:33they haven't worked on any projects together.
23:37We all have to work together.
23:40We all have to work together.
23:43We have to work together.
23:46We have to work together.
23:54I think we should be able to do it.
23:59The period right before the harvest is critical.
24:03The fence has already been broken several times.
24:06Tempers are starting to flare.
24:09Just a few days.
24:13You're going to run out.
24:15I'm so hungry.
24:20I should check my help again.
24:22I'm hungry.
24:25I'm hungry.
24:28I'm hungry.
24:30I'm hungry.
24:31I need my help now.
24:36I'm hungry.
24:42Hard feelings persist
25:12Stopping animal damage is not easy.
25:16Even a region like Misato, that's known for its advanced animal control measures, has taken a long time to turn
25:23things around.
25:40Making the residents the main players is the key to Masane's approach, but this story can't be told without one
25:48person in particular.
25:51The director of animal damage control at the town hall, Yasuda Ryō.
25:57He invited Masane here 18 years ago, and they've been working together ever since.
26:05The town had depended on hunters and subsidies to deal with the animal damage.
26:11The two worked together to change that policy.
26:19Ryō wants to transform the depopulated town into a sustainable place that can remain vibrant on into the future.
26:34The first thing they did was change the main players involved in animal damage control.
26:41Kubota Ayako is a farmer.
26:44At Ryō's urging, she obtained a trapper's license.
27:00There was a problem with relying only on hunters to solve the boar problem.
27:06Farmers wanted to eradicate the animals in summer when they did the most damage to crops.
27:12But hunters wanted to kill them in winter when their meat is more succulent.
27:20Then the farmers created a completely different system.
27:25He said,
27:26He said,
27:31He said,
27:33He said,
27:58Over 100 residents, including some elderly people, have set over
28:03400 traps throughout the town.
28:13Employees from a meat processing company established with local support rush over to pick up the
28:18captured bores.
28:25Ji Bian began working at the company six years ago.
28:41Born in Shanghai, he's lived in Japan since he was five.
28:49He studied biology at the University of Tokyo and once wanted to become a researcher.
28:58But he developed depression while studying in France and returned to Japan.
29:04He then heard about the measures to control animal damage and his interest was piqued.
29:11The town remodeled a shuttered nursery school into a meat processing facility.
29:20Here, Young is involved in everything from butchering the animals to developing products.
29:33Of the eight people working for the company, four are young people from outside the prefecture,
29:39who were recruited by the town office.
29:45Now, thanks to a system that can ship meat anywhere in Japan all year long, they've created
29:52employment and attracted newcomers.
29:59three years ago, Young met a local woman, Anjiki Mikiko at a matchmaking event sponsored by the town.
30:07They got married and are now awaiting the birth of their first child.
30:12two years to come to transparency and the imagination.
30:19There's a few methods to encourage theIKIi to control the animals at this map.
30:36It's a really important job that you can do.
30:41It's a really important job that you can do.
30:46And if you want to do something, you can do something.
30:51If you want to help you, you can help.
30:54I think I've been able to give up for the job of this town.
30:59I'm always feeling it.
31:00here I'm happy
31:02on this day
31:10Masane has rushed to the rice field in Misaki
31:14I'm going to work for you
31:16I'm going to work for you
31:17Ryōji wants to consult with her
31:19I'm going to work for you
31:24they start with what they can do on their own
31:27Ryoji and Masane begin cutting the grass on the abandoned farmland
31:31where the boars like to hide
31:40It's a team effort
31:42That's how Masane does things
32:03After a while, other people join in
32:18Two hours later, the land has been cleared
32:44Afterward, they all gather at Ryoji's house
33:00The two people who had argued
33:02nod to each other
33:13Masane talks about the importance
33:16of working with a common purpose
33:18L praying?
33:21Maybe I'll show para everyone's and hands
33:24After coming with the wasn't my home
33:29I'll start meeting everybody
33:37That's what done
33:40It's all about the old school.
33:41So many people will use it,
33:43but they will do it in order to do it.
33:46So.
33:46Yeah, the old school,
33:51the old school,
33:52so they will do it.
33:56So it's all about the time to do it.
34:00So,
34:00when we use it,
34:01it's all about the whole of the other,
34:03we all do it.
34:06I think I'm not going to get to the forest.
34:10I'm not going to be thinking that I'm going to be worried about it.
34:15But I will get to the forest.
34:19I don't know why I'm watching this.
34:22I was watching this forest.
34:23I was watching this forest.
34:26I thought it was going to be a bit better.
34:30I can't believe it.
34:32I can't believe it's a feeling.
34:33But I can't believe it.
34:38This place is not to be needed.
34:41This place is not to be needed.
34:43This place is not to be made.
34:45This place is not to be made.
34:47I'm sorry.
34:50I'm sorry.
34:51Thank you so much.
34:57This place is so much fun.
35:27The women and the women in the world,
35:28town have also joined in. They're learning to shoot off homemade fireworks
35:46that Masane taught them to make to drive away the monkeys. It's the first time
35:55they've gathered together to take part in efforts to control animal damage.
36:01It's the first experience.
36:05Oh, it's so good.
36:09Oh, it's already on the top.
36:12It's already on the top.
36:34It's September. Harvest season has arrived in Misaki.
36:45Ever since that day when they all talked together, there's been no damage by wild boars.
37:09Ryoji has cooked some newly harvested rice.
37:15There's someone he wants to give this gleaming rice ball to.
37:25There's another one.
37:25I'll talk to you later.
37:28And I'll ask you again.
37:31I'll wait for it.
37:31It's a good one.
37:33That's the best.
37:35Well, I'll wait for it to come.
37:38I will.
37:39I'll wait for it.
37:41It's a good one.
37:45It's delicious.
37:48It's delicious.
37:49How do you get it?
37:53I didn't know it.
37:54But it's delicious.
38:02I was saying this is delicious.
38:05It's delicious.
38:05It is delicious.
38:05It tastes delicious.
38:12Masane is a master at getting people to smile.
38:23Misato is building on its reputation for effective animal control methods.
38:29Now, a big project is taking shape here with an eye to the future.
38:43Good morning.
38:46Unusually, Masane is wearing a suit today.
38:51An Osaka-based manufacturer of equipment for preventing and controlling animal damage is opening a new office.
39:06It's been some time since a new company has opened here.
39:10It's all part of the Misato Valley concept developed by the local government.
39:25Promoting the concept are Masane and Yasuda Ryo, who has drawn up a plan for the town's future.
39:35It aims to attract businesses, universities and others involved in nuisance animal control to Misato and make it a hub
39:43of knowledge and insight.
39:44They hope that Misato will become the Silicon Valley of animal damage control.
39:53The key player behind the R&D for the concept is Professor Eguchi Yusuke, a leading expert in wildlife behavior
40:02from Azabu University near Tokyo.
40:12Working with equipment manufacturers, Professor Eguchi has developed a new system that uses an AI-equipped camera that can instantly
40:21identify approaching animals.
40:26A large company is also participating in the project.
40:32Combining advanced technology for detecting bears and other wild animals, the project aims to protect crops as well as the
40:41lives of residents.
40:44Remember, people and animals are dealing with animals.
40:50They are in short-lived animals.
40:56Many people share their plans byります.
41:02and the lands are perfectly talented and non-military animals.
41:05They have seen that far away.
41:06This is used as the land that is more than half-living animals.
41:08They have seen that now they are online-lit animals.
41:09They have seen that there areenoughly many humans.
41:11They have seen that even though they are doing this well as the the end of the world.
41:11Last year, the Azabu University Fieldwork Center opened in Misato as a base for the university's outdoor courses.
41:23Students from urban areas have begun to learn how humans and nature can coexist.
41:32In Misato, the project is activating exchanges among students and researchers, and trying to attract like-minded people to the
41:41town.
41:46And in January 2022, Ryung and Mikiko visit the town hall.
42:02It's their long-awaited baby.
42:07They have a healthy daughter who weighed 3.1 kilograms at birth.
42:15Ryung comes to see how they are.
42:20Without his efforts to build the meat processing plant, this day would not have been possible.
42:58For a year, I was very interested in having the same
42:59But I think it's a battle against the times of the time.
43:05I'm so happy to see a new life coming in.
43:12I think I can't change anything.
43:18It's my first impression.
43:23On a spring morning,
43:26Nyang and Mikiko have come to the farmer's market
43:29to introduce their daughter to their neighbors.
43:38A new treasure has been born within the tight community
43:42where Masane lives.
43:56In March 2022, representatives from Misaki
44:01come to Misato for an inspection tour.
44:26Yuasa Mariko and the other visitors are eager to see the farmer's market.
44:36They are welcomed with homemade dishes their hosts made just for them.
44:45This is roasted boar that Masane prepared.
45:05Masane and the visitors inspect the field
45:08where the residents have learned about animal damage control.
45:22This woman is the community's top vegetable grower.
45:31This woman is the community's top vegetable grower.
45:48It's clear now.
45:50The main actors are the residents.
45:53Without them, these efforts won't get off the ground.
45:57When they come to the food,
45:59we want to learn how to do it.
46:07The first one is the official fire plant.
46:10We also need to keep our product.
46:11Here, we need to go back and teach the social media.
46:13The information is based on the wild.
46:13We are going back and learn how to change this world.
46:13They are going back to the wild.
46:14So, we have to learn how to live.
46:15It's different.
46:18We're going back to the wild.
46:19How are we going back and what we've done,
46:19and what we're doing?
46:20Is the human being able to live to live in any video?
46:24Tomorrow meets the trial.
46:26Five days after their inspection, a stream of residents come to a field in Misaki.
46:38They were invited by Mariko, who participated in the inspection tour.
46:50The field was badly damaged by wild animals and abandoned.
46:54They're going to plant mandarin orange, kumquat, and fig seedlings here.
47:05It's fun to meet many people.
47:08If you're at home, there's no one to meet with them.
47:38Even here, new community ties are big.
47:42They are beginning to take root.
47:49In May, rice farmer Ryoji is starting to plant.
47:55This year, the farmers will support each other to protect their crops.
48:16This is an extraordinary story about an ordinary mountain village in Japan.
48:25We're happy we could share it with you.
48:53We're happy we could share it with you.
48:55We're happy we could share it with you.
48:55You
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