LIFE WITH THE YAMABIRU (LAND-DWELLING LEECH) AFTER THE FAILURE OF A FENCE IN RURAL JAPAN
In recent years, Haemadipsa zeylanica japonica, a land-dwelling leech referred to as a “yamabiru” in Japanese, has proliferated in the countryside of Japan, because wild animals are a vector of the yamabiru. In some areas, the yamabiru suck the blood of people even in houses. This paper explores how...
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| Language: | English |
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Hasanuddin University
2018-07-01
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| Series: | Journal of Asian Rural Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://pasca.unhas.ac.id/ojs/index.php/jars/article/view/1398 |