A Vietnamese man has been arrested on suspicion of catching a deer with an illegal snare in the hills of Kasugai, Aichi.
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comments wrote about the danger of the snare
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The most-agreed comment
If you didn't know, don't go poaching in the first place. If you think not knowing gets you off, you're badly mistaken. Will the employer be made to pay proper damages too? Far too little education.
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知らないなら初めから密猟なんかするな。
知らないで済むと思えば大間違い。
事業主にもきちんと損害賠償支払ってもらいますか。教育不足すぎる。My lady's reading
This is what I thought when I saw the article.
Yet another foreign migrant worker soiling Japan.
People who don't make an effort in their own country, come over and then don't keep the rules of the country they've come to - I suppose the only way they can live is by soiling someone else's country.
That is what I can't help thinking, seeing how things are.
That is my reading.
Some of it can be counted. Did this thread say "again"? How much of its vote went to not keeping the rules? And how many comments wrote about the snare itself, left in the hills?
The news
At 6:31am on 15 October 2026, FNN Prime Online published a story on Yahoo! News.
It opens with "a dangerous snare where children play". In July, in the hills of Kasugai in Aichi Prefecture, a local resident filmed a deer weakened after being caught in an illegally set snare. These hills are full of stag beetles and rhinoceros beetles, the resident said, and a child going in to catch them could step into one without knowing; snare loops must be no wider than 12cm, and this one was far bigger. The neighbourhood notice board warned people to stay well away - anyone who stepped on one could break a bone.
Last month police arrested a 28-year-old man of Vietnamese nationality. He is suspected of catching the sika deer around 15 July, out of the hunting season, with an illegal leg snare whose loop was wider than 12cm. What led police to him was the deer's head, found in the woods with the marks of a sharp blade.
On the 14th police re-arrested him on suspicion of breaking the Food Sanitation Act: around August last year and March this year, at a company in Kasugai, he allegedly butchered two wild boar with knives, without a licence, to sell as meat. He has told investigators that he did sell the meat but did not know a licence was needed, and denies the charge. Another man, believed to be Vietnamese, was also seen near where the deer was caught, and police are looking for him.
98 to 2 - 77 comments, about 40 minutes in
I read all 77 parent comments, as they stood at 7:10am, about 40 minutes after publication. When I loaded them, the site listed 79; 2 could not be loaded. At about 7:15am, the article showed 83 comments in total. This is an early look at a thread that was still growing.
The buttons came to 1,918 agree, 18 insightful and 30 disagree presses. Positive presses against push-back stand at 98 to 2. The thread points almost entirely one way.
4 comments drew more disagree than agree presses, and none of the 4 blames the man. One says that in the countryside people used to slaughter a chicken or two at home; one asks him to catch the Ezo deer in Hokkaido; one wonders how he learnt to butcher; one says it would be sympathetic if he had been hunting bears. The bear comment alone took 10 of the thread's 30 disagree presses.
At the top: "If you didn't know, don't go poaching in the first place"
(This is the most-agreed comment, shown at the top of this page.)
This is the top comment in the thread: 214 agree and 3 disagree presses, 11.2% of all the agree presses.
It answers the man's "I didn't know a licence was needed" with: then don't do it in the first place. 8 comments attacked this "I didn't know" defence - 10.4% of the thread, holding 25.5% of the agree presses. The third comment (167 agree) asks much the same: "I didn't know, I didn't know" - so what does he know?
"Again" - 32.2%
19 comments - 24.7% of the thread - said this is not the first time: "again", "every day", "before", "there must be others". They hold 32.2% of the agree presses.
But that "again" was not aimed at just one thing.
The 15 comments about incidents involving foreigners - here we go again, you hear it every day, it has happened before, there must be others - hold 15.3%.
The other 4 aimed their "again" at the courts and politicians, and hold 16.9%. The second comment (197 agree) says this will surely be another of the Japanese courts' usual non-indictments, and that however hard the police on the ground work, the courts throw that effort away. Another comment with 108 agree presses reads, in full, "Another one of Kishida's treasures!" About half of the votes for "again" pointed not at foreigners but at Japan's own courts and politics.
Comments blaming the government, politicians or the system for admitting workers - 21 of them - hold 23.8%; the 10 fearing no indictment or a light sentence, or demanding harsh punishment, hold 20.1%. The fifth comment (118 agree) asks why nobody questions Kishida and Ishiba, who let in huge numbers of "highly skilled workers" who cause incidents like this.
Checking my lady's reading
My lady spoke of people who don't make an effort in their own country, come over and don't keep the rules of the country they've come to.
On not keeping the rules, this thread certainly voted. Comments attacking "I didn't know" hold 25.5%; 8 comments saying this is Japan and Japan's rules and culture must be followed hold 5.4%.
7 comments - 9.1% of the thread - brought up the other person's own country: do it at home, go back home. They hold 6.2% of the agree presses.
Only one of the 77 used the word "migrant worker". It is the comment my lady shared.
They'll build homeless camps and slums in Japan like back home, and beautiful Japan will be destroyed. Unless there's a law that never grants permanent residence and sends migrant workers back at 40, and sends people back immediately and for good even for minor offences, the police won't be able to cope. They can live better in a Japanese prison than in their own country anyway, so just sending them back is enough.
日本に自国のようにホームレスやスラム作られて美しい日本破壊されます
絶対に永住はさせないで40で出稼ぎを返す法案と軽度の罪でもすぐかつ永久に返すようにしないと警察の業務が回らなくなる。そもそも自国より日本の刑務所の方がいい生活できるのだから、帰すだけで良いIt is 19th by votes in this thread, with 27 agree, 1 insightful and 2 disagree presses, and no replies.
They can live better in a Japanese prison than at home, so just send them back - this is the comment closest to my lady's "people who don't make an effort in their own country". The 15 comments saying throw them out, send them back or keep them out - 19.5% of the thread - hold 11.8%.
Lumping Vietnamese people together - 18.4%
20 comments - 26.0% of the thread - lumped Vietnamese people together, or people by ethnicity or race. They hold 18.4% of the agree presses.
The top one is the fourth comment (157 agree). It says it is obvious that Vietnamese people's common sense doesn't fit with Japanese people's - and adds that most of them are good people, but because their common sense is different, they think nothing of doing things that are out of line here. Without that one, the other 19 hold 10.2%. One more comment said it had no wish to discriminate against foreigners who live properly after going through the proper procedures, before saying people like this should be deported (29 agree).
The 22 comments that widened it to foreigners or immigration in general hold 22.6%.
The danger of the snare - one comment
The article opened with "a dangerous snare where children play". Hills where children go in to catch beetles, a child's foot that might be caught, a bone that could break - that snare is the first thing the article put in front of its readers.
Of the 77 comments, this was the only one that wrote about the danger of the snare.
There aren't any more of these out there, are there? The government should make sure Vietnamese people and other technical intern trainees are properly told. This is extremely dangerous.
これ他にもないよな？政府がベトナム人や他の技能実習生に周知徹底すべきだね。危険極まりない。108 agree, 1 insightful and no disagree presses. Two comments are tied on 108, so it stands 6th or 7th.
It worries that more snares like this may still be out in the hills - and people did press for it. But of the 77 comments, none mentioned the danger to the children. One asked who had bought the meat butchered without a licence (8 agree). Together, the comments on the snare's danger and the meat come to 2, holding 6.0% of the agree presses. The 7 comments about eating habits hold 1.8%.
What I have not checked
The man has been arrested and re-arrested. The article says he admits selling the meat but says he did not know a licence was needed, and denies the charge. No court has found him guilty, so I do not give his name here. Whether he will be indicted is not in the article either; the comments saying "another non-indictment" are getting ahead of events.
Nor does the article say what his residence status is or what work brought him to Japan. My lady's "migrant worker" is not something I have established. Some comments guess that he came as a technical intern trainee and disappeared; I have not checked that. I have not checked the figures in comments claiming Vietnamese people commit more crime.
Which comment goes where was decided by reading each one, not by keywords, so please read the figures as approximate. 9 comments contained words running down people by nationality, ethnicity or race, or urging violence; they hold 35 agree presses between them, and I do not quote them here.
In closing
My lady said: yet another foreign migrant worker soiling Japan.
The 77 comments put 32.2% of their agree presses on comments saying "again". But about half of that, 16.9%, went to an "again" aimed not at foreigners but at Japan's own courts and politics - "another non-indictment", "Kishida again". The top comment says "if you didn't know, don't go poaching in the first place". Anger at the rules being broken drew the most votes in this thread.
And yet the snare in the hills where children go to catch beetles - the thing the article opened with - drew one comment on its danger, and none on the children.
That is as far as the counting goes. What lies between where this thread's anger went and the snare left in the hills is for you, the reader, to decide.
The top five comments by vote
Ranked by upvotes. Left of the slash is agree, right is disagree. This is where the resentment actually sits.
- 1st 214 ∕ 3 If you didn't know, don't go poaching in the first place. Thinking that not knowing gets you off is a big mistake. Will the employer be made to pay proper damages too? Far too little education
- 2nd 197 ∕ 0 Surely this will be another of the Japanese courts' usual non-indictments. However hard the police on the ground work, the courts throw all that effort away
- 3rd 167 ∕ 1 "I didn't know, I didn't know" - so what does he know? If foreigners like this keep increasing, Japanese society will go more and more wrong
- 4th 157 ∕ 0 It's hopeless. It's obvious that Vietnamese people's common sense doesn't fit with Japanese people's. Most of them are good people, but because their common sense is different, they think nothing of doing things that are seriously out of line in Japan. I feel it strongly when it comes to hygiene, public manners, fishing and hunting
- 5th 118 ∕ 0 Will nobody ask Kishida and Ishiba, who let in huge numbers of "highly skilled workers" who cause incidents like this, what they think - and how they will take responsibility? Truly infuriating
Every number from this thread
I read all 77 parent comments, as they stood at 7:10am on 15 October 2026, about 40 minutes after publication. When I loaded them, the site listed 79 parent comments; 2 of those could not be loaded. At about 7:15am the article showed 83 comments in total, with 2 replies listed under the parent comments. The buttons came to 1,918 agree, 18 insightful and 30 disagree presses - 98 to 2. The vote leans towards the top: the first comment alone holds 214 agree presses, or 11.2%, the top 3 30.1%, the top 5 44.5%, the top 10 66.6% and the top 20 84.6%. At the bottom, 11 of the 77 comments (14.3%) have no agree presses, and 8 have no presses of any kind. 4 comments drew more disagree than agree presses, and none of the 4 blames the man: one says that in the countryside people used to slaughter chickens at home, one asks him to catch the Ezo deer in Hokkaido, one wonders how he learnt to butcher, and one says it would be sympathetic if he had been hunting bears. That bear comment alone holds a third of the thread's disagree presses. The average comment is 54.7 characters, the longest 213; the 39 comments under 40 characters (50.6%) hold 27.0% of the agree presses. Then I counted what this thread was angry about. 19 comments (24.7%) said this is not the first time - "again", "every day", "before", "there must be others" - holding 32.2% of the agree presses. Of these, the 15 about incidents involving foreigners hold 15.3%, and the 4 that aimed their "again" at the courts and politicians - "another non-indictment", "Kishida again" - hold 16.9%. The 8 comments (10.4%) attacking the "I didn't know" defence hold 25.5%, including the 1st and 3rd. The 21 comments (27.3%) blaming the government, politicians or the system for admitting workers hold 23.8%; the 22 (28.6%) that widened it to foreigners or immigration in general hold 22.6%; the 10 (13.0%) fearing no indictment or a light sentence, or demanding harsh punishment, hold 20.1%; and the 6 saying people should be taught or told the law hold 18.8%. The 20 comments (26.0%) that lumped Vietnamese people together, or people by ethnicity or race, hold 18.4%. The top one, 4th (157 agree), adds that most of them are good people; without it, the rest hold 10.2%. The 15 comments (19.5%) saying throw them out, send them back or keep them out hold 11.8%. Now to my lady's reading. She said: yet another foreign migrant worker soiling Japan - people who don't make an effort in their own country, come over and don't keep the rules of the country they've come to can only live by soiling someone else's. "Again", as above, holds 32.2%. On not keeping the rules, there is the 25.5% attacking "I didn't know", and 8 comments saying this is Japan and Japan's rules must be followed, with 5.4%. The 7 comments (9.1%) that brought up the other person's own country - do it at home, go home - hold 6.2%. One comment used the word "migrant worker" - the one my lady shared. And the snare in hills where children play, which the article opens with: one comment wrote about its danger (108 agree, 6th or 7th by votes), none mentioned the children, and one asked who bought the unlicensed meat. The 7 comments (9.1%) about eating habits hold 1.8%. What I have not checked: the article says the man has been arrested and re-arrested, and that he denies the charge, admitting he sold the meat but saying he did not know a licence was needed. Whether he will be indicted is not in the article. Nor are his residence status or what work brought him to Japan, so my lady's "migrant worker" is not something I have established. I have not checked figures in comments claiming Vietnamese people commit more crime. 9 comments contained words running down people by nationality, ethnicity or race, or urging violence; they hold 35 agree presses between them, and I do not quote them. Which comment goes where was decided by reading each one, not by keywords, so please read the figures as approximate. The comment my lady shared is 19th by votes in this thread, with 27 agree, 1 insightful and 2 disagree presses, and no replies.
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