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Didn't know Japan had venomous animals at all
We definitely do. Especially on the more tropical Okinawan islands (Iriomote island is amazingly beautiful and mostly wild jungle). Even where I live (about an hour north of Tokyo station on the bullet trains) we have venomous snakes, one of which is pretty bad (and was hanging out in my carport one day). The toads are venomous (which is though to be how one of the snakes actually becomes venomous as they eat them) but pose no real threat to humans. We have all kinds of bugs such as mukade (millipedes), biting ants, beetles, and various biting flies and wasps. Murder hornets (technically giant asian hornets) are native to the region.
Lol, every time I read something like this I am again thankful for the rather tame fauna found here in Germany. The only thing that might kill you are wild boars
Oh, we have those, too. And bears.
Every time a bear decides to cross the border (usually in bavaria) it gets declared a 'Problembär' and is shot :shrug:, but we do have wolves again, which is cool, although the conservative (lol) forces are trying to get rid of those too already
Bear hunting is a fairly normal thing up here and helps keep the population down. I've eaten bear hunted by an acquaintance. It's not an issue near me yet, but a lot of the more depopulated areas are having bigger issues with bears for the remaining (often elderly) residents.
We don't have wolves in my area that I know of. We do have two types of deer, tanuki, something kinda like mink, fox, boar, and some other rodents. We might have monkeys in the more mountainous areas, but I've not seen any up here so far.
I guess Japans geography allows for a lot more undeveloped regions where wild animal can thrive and live without bothering anyone. Here we mostly have flat land and due to the heavy settling for almost 2000 years there's little untouched nature left.
The population has been falling in recent decades with down to 100 million predicted by 2050. Since almost all the jobs are in the big cities, young people go for uni or trade school and almost never move back. Whole areas are just being reclaimed by nature