According to numbers posted in the Yomiuri Shimbun, some 10,954 racoons were captured in the 2015 fiscal year in Hokkaido alone.
Since raccoons give birth to litters of 4 – 7 cubs at a time and have no natural predators in the area, their numbers skyrocketed.
The raccoons either escaped or were released into the wild, where they established breeding populations.
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