Foreign monkey men have returned home ... nuclear accident blamed
Mainichi Shimbun August 16, 2013 (loose, goofy Google Translate)
The final curtain is dropping on the Nikko Monkey Corps (nikko saru gundan), the famous monkey school in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture at the end of the year because lack of foreign trainers. Nikko Monkey Corps had been a popular theme park...but after Fukushima nuclear accident, foreign trainers ran away. In addition, the Monkey Corps was aging making training difficult...
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...after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident, there was a shortage foreign trainers since they all returned home. To teach the monkey tricks difficult and monkeys can be gay, was aging [sic].
Mainichi original wrote:日光猿軍団:年内解散へ…原発事故で外国人調教師が帰国
毎日新聞 2013年08月16日
猿の集団芸「お猿の学校」で知られる栃木県日光市のテーマパーク「日光猿軍団」が調教師不足などを理由に年内で幕を下ろすことが16日、日光猿軍団への取材で分かった...
...しかし、東京電力福島第1原発事故後、外国人調教師が帰国して調教師が不足。サルに芸を教えることが難しくなり、芸ができるサルも高齢化していた。