{"id":263612,"date":"2026-05-18T13:12:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=263612"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:39:24","slug":"2-us-citizens-arrested-in-japan-after-entering-enclosure-of-internet-famous-monkey-punch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/263612\/","title":{"rendered":"2 US citizens arrested in Japan after entering enclosure of internet-famous monkey Punch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two American citizens were arrested in Japan after a stunt in which one entered the monkey enclosure at a zoo where a baby macaque named Punch became a global internet sensation this year, Euronews<\/a> writes, referring to police.<\/p>\n

One of the men, who identified himself as a 24-year-old college student, was arrested on Sunday after climbing over a fence and dropping into a dry moat surrounding the monkey exhibit at Ichikawa City Zoo outside Tokyo.<\/p>\n

The other man, who was filming the act, identified himself as a 27-year-old singer.<\/p>\n

Images on social media showed a person scaling the fence in a costume that included a smiley face head with sunglasses, prompting the monkeys to scatter.<\/p>\n

The arrests follow a massive surge in domestic and international visitors to the zoo, driven by Punch’s viral fame.<\/p>\n

The baby monkey became an internet star this year after the zoo posted photos of Punch clutching a plush orangutan for comfort after being rejected by his mother.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two American citizens were arrested in Japan after a stunt in which one entered the monkey enclosure at a zoo where a baby macaque named Punch became a global internet sensation this year, Euronews writes, referring to police. One of the men, who identified himself as a 24-year-old college student, was arrested on Sunday after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":263594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-social"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263616,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263612\/revisions\/263616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}