Game meat handlers training school in Japan

Game meat handlers training school in Japan

A student (L) is trained to process an animal at the Japan Gibier Academy, the country's first facility dedicated to wild game meat education in Usa, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 14, 2023.

Game meat handlers training school in Japan

Game meat handlers training school in Japan

A student (L) learns to skin a deer hung on a gambrel at the Japan Gibier Academy, the country's first facility dedicated to wild game meat education in Usa, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 14, 2023.

Game meat handlers training school in Japan

Game meat handlers training school in Japan

Photo taken on Sept. 14, 2023, shows the exterior of the Japan Gibier Academy, the country's first facility dedicated to wild game meat education in Usa, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, which opened in the spring.

Deer cuisine shown as 'Dish of Year' for 2014

Deer cuisine shown as 'Dish of Year' for 2014

TOKYO, Japan - A sample of "gibier" wild game cuisine, named the inaugural "Dish of the Year" for 2014, is exhibited in Tokyo on Dec. 4, 2014, at the office of Gurunavi Inc., a restaurant guide portal operator. The dish is "savoy cabbage cannelloni stuffed with Hokkaido deer meat boiled in red wine."

Wild game cuisine named 'Dish of Year' for 2014

Wild game cuisine named 'Dish of Year' for 2014

TOKYO, Japan - TV script writer Kundo Koyama (far L) joins other people to sit at a table for deer meet dishes at the office of Tokyo's Gurunavi Inc., a restaurant guide portal operator, on Dec. 4, 2014, at an event marking the selection of wild game cuisine, known as "gibier," as the inaugural "Dish of the Year" for 2014.

Meat from overpopulated animals used for palatable dishes

Meat from overpopulated animals used for palatable dishes

NAGANO, Japan - 'Gibier' or game burgers made from deer meat are among dishes served at a tasting party of meat from animals hunted due to overpopulation, in Ueda, Nagano Prefecture, in December 2013.

Cheese-sprinkled deer meat dish served at gibier restaurant

Cheese-sprinkled deer meat dish served at gibier restaurant

This is a parmesan cheese-sprinkled deer meat dish served at the "Wana" gibier (wild game meat) restaurant in Tokyo's Gotanda district photographed on May 15, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Smiling manager of gibier restaurants in Tokyo

Smiling manager of gibier restaurants in Tokyo

A smiling Koji Nose who oversees three gibier (wild game meat) restaurants in Tokyo poses at one of the restaurants on May 20, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo