From the New York Times, this is an animal.

I'm Sam Anderson.

Episode 5, Wolves. Well, we should, the shop closes at six. Do you think we'll be back by then?

Yes, 515. Maybe.

I can't imagine that don't be like a ton to do that.

No, I agree.

I don't think we need to do that much.

I mean, we just want to make the pilgrimage to the statue yeah.

Okay, you know about the statue?

Okay, we're going to tell you in the car and you can tell the driver.

The first thing I remember about our trip to the wolf statue is that

we almost didn't go. People told us not to bother. The memorial is out in the middle of

absolute nowhere on the edge of this tiny village in Japan.

It would take all day to get there and probably be a giant anti-climax.

But I was already in Japan because I was working on a story for the magazine about

Hia Miyasaki, the animator, and since I'd come this far, I just felt like I really needed to do this.

That's really boring.

Bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto, regular train from Kyoto to Kyoto to a smaller city called

Nara, which is famous for its deer.

We come out of the train station and it's pouring rain. That's another reason not to go on the pilgrimage

because it's just soaking rain constantly all day long.

I'm with Crystal Duham who's carrying a gigantic microphone around everywhere and then Samp Yee are incredible interpreter and so we

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