The population of the Japanese Wolf sharply declined towards the end of the nineteenth century at which time an epidemic of canine distemper further diminished the numbers.
Although the ultimate and rapid loss of the little wolf has not been determined these combined factors resulted in the disappearance of the Japanese Wolf by the turn of the century.
In 1905 a Japanese Wolf was killed near Washikaguchi on Honshu. This is believed to have been the last Japanese Wolf on earth.
The Japanese Wolf now only exists as the Legendary God it was once perceived.
Its physical reality has gone forever.

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