THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 26, 2019 at 18:00 JST
One of the smuggled perenties. This photo was taken on Nov. 26 at Tokyo's Marunouchi Police Station. (Nobufumi Yamada)
Six men are facing criminal charges on suspicion of smuggling two rare perentie lizards, a protected species under the Washington Convention, into Japan. [Read More]
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