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Japanese deer skin eyed for traditional leather goods

Kenichi Kushida (L), research fellow at the Yamanashi Prefectural Industrial Technology Center, holds the skin of a Japanese deer killed to control the snowballing population of the animal and curb growing damage to farm produce at the Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Technology in Kofu in the central Japan prefecture in July 2015. The prefecture hopes to use domestic deer skin for its traditional "Koshu Inden" leather goods made of imported skin. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Purses at leather goods shop in Kofu, central Japan

Japanese deer skin eyed for traditional leather goods