According to the lawsuit filed with the Fukuoka District Court's Kokura branch and other sources, the girl, now aged 13, from the city of Kitakyushu was thought to have had delayed language development from around the age of 2.... In 2011, she was diagnosed with an intellectual disability and a pervasive developmental disorder by the Kitakyushu Children's Rehabilitation Center, when she was 3.... The suit is demanding about 20 million yen( roughly$ 181, 000) in damages from the Kitakyushu Soci

KITAKYUSHU--Eighteen people in residential areas in this city's Wakamatsu Ward have been injured in monkey attacks since August.... In recent years, there have been instances of wild animals appearing in urban areas--including a case in which monkey sightings were reported in Tokyo day after day--but it is rare for the animals to attack humans, as in the case of Wakamatsu Ward, puzzling zookeepers.... What exactly is behind the monkey attacks in the area?...