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Japan's last living traditional falconer, Hidetoshi Matsubara holds out a piece of meat as he calls his Bear Hawk in the mountains above Tendo city, Yamagata prefecture, Japan, 16 March 2016. Matsubara has been hunting as a professional falconer for more than forty years. Falconry reportedly was first introduced to Japan in the fourth century from Korea. Professional falconers hunting animals for meat and furs were common in Japan's northern mountains before WWII, but the lifestyle is no longer economically viable due to rapid decline in the rabbit population due to commercial forestry. Until recently, Matsubara lived with his wife and son on an annual income of one million yen, or 7,900 euro. (Photo by Everett Kennedy Brown/EPA)
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