{"id":9338,"date":"2025-10-24T00:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/police-raid-closed-hokkaido-zoo-for-unauthorized-land-development\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:25:13","slug":"police-raid-closed-hokkaido-zoo-for-unauthorized-land-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/police-raid-closed-hokkaido-zoo-for-unauthorized-land-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Police raid closed Hokkaido zoo for unauthorized land development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">Sapporo &ndash; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police searched locations linked to a now-closed zoo in Sapporo on Thursday over allegations of unauthorized land development.<\/p>\n<p>The North Safari Sapporo, operated by Success-Kanko, opened in July 2005. The zoo closed at the end of September this year, in light of such allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The company allegedly developed the zoo without obtaining permission from the Sapporo Municipal Government, even though the entire zoo site was located within an urbanization-restricted area.<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring the city government&rsquo;s oral and written administrative guidance, the zoo expanded its area, with 183 illegally constructed buildings as of December last year.<\/p>\n<p>Following a rise in public criticism over the persistent law violations, the company said this March that the zoo would end operations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>While the company has launched demolition work, a city government survey conducted on Sept. 18 found that 122 buildings still remained at the zoo.<\/p>\n<p>The city government has recommended that the buildings be completely demolished by Dec. 26. The city has indicated it will consider issuing a demolition order based on the city planning law if the company fails to meet this deadline.<\/p>\n<p>As of Oct. 4, 312 animals, including tigers and lions, still remain at the zoo. The city&rsquo;s health officials have asked the zoo to submit a plan to transfer its animals to other facilities by the end of this month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Police raid closed Hokkaido zoo for unauthorized land development<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sapporo &ndash; Police searched locations linked to a now-closed zoo in Sapporo on Thursday over allegations of unauthorized land development. The North Safari Sapporo, operated by Success-Kanko, opened in July 2005. The zoo closed at the end of September this year, in light of such allegations. The company allegedly developed the zoo without obtaining permission&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/police-raid-closed-hokkaido-zoo-for-unauthorized-land-development\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Police raid closed Hokkaido zoo for unauthorized land development&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}