To the left, two skinned muskrats, their gray reptilian tails poking out from plastic wrap. To the right, a single, skinned, intact raccoon, also wrapped in plastic, resting on a bed of ice. Its fangs ...

“I had to watch a raccoon writhing in pain and fighting until its last breath,” the employee in Tomioka, Gunma Prefecture, said. “I harbored a desire to open the cage and let it go.

With just hours remaining before Parliament resumes to address the Vote of No Confidence (VONC), as directed by the Supreme Court ruling a week ago, 82 MPs aligned with the government attended a ...