By HIROTO MOTOI/ Staff Writer
March 4, 2021 at 07:00 JST
Kensuke Yasui, left, a senior curator at the Toyohashi Museum of Natural History, explains about the donated skull of a Japanese wolf with Hirokazu Sakamoto, the museum’s director, at the Toyohashi city office in Aichi Prefecture. (Hiroto Motoi)
TOYOHASHI, Aichi Prefecture--A canine skull that was used as an amulet to recover from diseases is now recognized as the only specimen of an extinct Japanese wolf in Aichi Prefecture, officials at a museum here said. [Read More]
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