Morning mist rises behind a hunting lodge in a forest outside Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, November 19, 2016. A small but growing number of Japanese women enter the male-dominated world of hunting, where it was once taboo for men to even speak to a woman before going on a hunt. As the hunting fraternity shrinks due to age and rural depopulation, women are recruited to help protect farms against rising numbers of wild deer and boar viewed as pests by farmers. Japanese farmers have lost up to 23 billion yen ($170 million) annually since 2008 because of rising numbers of deer, boar, monkeys and birds, the Ministry of Agriculture said. Hunting groups and local governments are trying to recruit women through social media, as well as offering hunting tours and classroom training. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Hunters Chiaki Kodama (R) and Aoi Fukuno drag a deer that Kodama shot through a forest outside Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 17, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Blood flows from the body of a dead deer in a forest creek outside Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 17, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Hunters Chiaki Kodama and Aoi Fukuno eat breakfast before their hunting trip in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 17, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Buckets hold the remains of a deer in a shed in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 17, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A deer carcass lies in the back of a truck in a forest outside Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 17, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Deer bones are seen in a shed in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 17, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A deer carcass hangs in a shed to drain in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 17, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Hunter Chiaki Kodama blows a deer whistle to attract animals in a forest outside Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 17, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Hunter Fujiko Nagata and her husband Izumi walk in a forest looking for bear in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, November 15, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Hunter Chiaki Kodama loads a deer she shot onto her truck in a forest outside Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 17, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Hunter Chiaki Kodama shoots a deer in a forest outside Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 17, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Hunter Masami Hata shoots at a duck in a forest outside Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, November 20, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Hunter Chiaki Kodama points at a deer prints on a road outside Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 17, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A deer runs through a forest after it was shot by hunter Chiaki Kodama outside Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 17, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Hunter Fujiko Nagata and her husband Izumi stand with their son Ryo in the kitchen of their restaurant in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, November 15, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Hunter Yasuyo Kitagawa holds her rifle as she waits for deer in a forest outside Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 18, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Hunter Yasuyo Kitagawa holds Chiro, the offspring of her hunting dog at her farm in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 18, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A deer lies in a forest after being shot by a hunter outside Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 17, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Hunter Yasuyo Kitagawa drives into a forest to hunt for deer outside Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 18, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Hunter Chiaki Kodama guts a deer in a shed in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 17, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Boar sausages are seen in a pan in the restaurant of hunter Fujiko Nagata in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, November 15, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Deer antlers pile up in a shed at the farm of hunter Yasuyo Kitagawa in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, November 18, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





The head of a boar lies in a bowl at hunter Fujiko Nagata's gutting station in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, November 20, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Hunter Fujiko Nagata carries her son Ryo as she removes the hide of a boar at her gutting station in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, November 20, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Hunter Fujiko Nagata stitches a purse made of deer skin at her workshop in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, November 19, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Entrails of a boar are seen in a bowl at hunter Fujiko Nagata's gutting station in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, November 20, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)