Tanuki trouble

[Stan Sakai]

This has nothing to do with Usagi but you very rarely hear about tanuki in the news.

The Nagasaki Airport, the world's first "floating airport" built on Mishima Island, is plagued by these raccoon-like dogs. Hopefully, I'll get the URL right so you can log on to it. There's also a picture.

[url]http:mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20021101p2a00m0fp039000c.html[/url]

[Stan Sakai]

I must have gotten a zero and an oh mixed up. Anyway, you can get to it from the Mainichi Shimbun website.

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/index.html

[ghostdog]

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20021101p2a00m0fp039000c.html

there, fixed it.

[Akahige]

HOW APPROPRIATE FOR SUCH A WELL-KNOWN TRICKSTER!! hee hee...if they get to be a serious nuisance, officials should look into trapping and removing them, to one of the national parks or adifferent island maybe...what a riot!

[mhirtes]

This has nothing to do with Usagi but you very rarely hear about tanuki in the news.

The Nagasaki Airport, the world's first "floating airport" built on Mishima Island, is plagued by these raccoon-like dogs. Hopefully, I'll get the URL right so you can log on to it. There's also a picture.

[url]http:mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20021101p2a00m0fp039000c.html[/url]

Nice article. Thanks Stan.

I hope the airport officials rent a copy of Miyazaki's "Tanuki Ponpoko" before they decide to take any drastic measures with the little critters. They may be in for more than what they bargained for.