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The story
At around 3:30 PM on the 13th, a monkey leapt down from a roof in the yard of a house in Tokuyama, Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and attacked a 49-year-old man, leaving a minor injury on his back. The animal, a lone adult estimated at about 50 centimeters long, was also seen at the scene catching a cat and hurling it into a pond. On 5ch, the thread unexpectedly took off, with posters worrying over the tossed cat’s fate, swapping trivia about monkey behavior, and clashing over opinions on culling wildlife.
At around 3:30 PM on the 13th, in the yard of a house in Tokuyama, Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, a 49-year-old man was attacked by a monkey and injured his back.
A monkey that had been on the roof is said to have suddenly leapt down at him.
The monkey was alone, an adult estimated to be about 50 centimeters long.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
What cracks me up is the old man in the top right holding an FN P90.
That's incredibly surreal.
Culling them is only natural.
The article says it's a stray living at the house and its kitten, and there was a photo of the pond — it's a small pond. Since it's a young kitten that got caught that easily even while being tormented by a monkey, I'd guess it's easy enough for a person to catch too, especially if it's drowning.
That's just the one video you happened to see — plenty of other videos show them sharing food.
That alone is enough to count as free-verse haiku.
The monkey
seized the kitten
and hurled it
ah,
what a brute it seemeth
It was rescued, but if it was drowning, there's no telling whether there'll be lasting effects.
Thanks.
It really is a thoughtless article, huh.
Pan-kun: "Facts." (Pan-kun is a famous TV chimpanzee personality in Japan)
Same with humans — once you hit puberty and the 'edgy middle-schooler' phase, you turn vicious like a completely different person too.
Guess testosterone kicks in at puberty for them just like with humans.
Catching a mouse → hunting instinct
Shoving a cat into a pond → ???
It wasn't shoved in, it was hurled.
Then the monkey's innocent too.
Was that just… playing?
Humans who buy a pet for fun and then dump it at the shelter once they're bored are way more messed up than that.
Their teeth are sharp.
Getting bitten would definitely leave a mark.
on the way to see the gods, a monkey threw it in the river.
Tricked by the rat, then sabotaged by the monkey too — that's just insult added to injury.
God, please save this cat.
Oh, so us almighty humans are gonna cull wild monkeys too, not just stray cats? Sure do love killing animals that never even hurt anyone, huh.
They're just protected by the 'Longevity Protection Act' (a pun — 鳥獣/chōjū "wildlife" sounds just like 長寿/chōju "longevity").
Teach them how terrifying humans can be and they'll stop coming near.
Well, longevity's something to celebrate, so of course it needs protecting.
Seriously, it'll attack you over something as minor as eye contact.
It's not 'minor' at all — just don't make eye contact, period.
Background and Key Talking Points
Monkey attacks on people aren’t unique to Yamaguchi — they’re reported nationwide, and incursions into residential areas along with crop damage have become an ongoing headache for local governments. The thread’s reference to “Peace-kun from Omiya Park” points to a monkey that caused a stir in Saitama Prefecture back in 2024, which posters likened to this incident. The original article never clarified whether the thrown cat survived, and commenters called it out as a “thoughtless article.” Also worth noting, since it’s commonly misunderstood: culling a problem animal requires local government authorization under Japan’s Act on the Protection and Management of Wildlife — it’s not something private citizens can simply do on their own.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “‘Monkey Grabs Cat and Throws It Into Pond’ — Monkey Appears in Residential Area, Man Suffers Minor Injuries in Attack — Shunan, Yamaguchi.”
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