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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)
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