In New York, the statute of limitations for personal injury cases gives an injured person three years from the date of the injury to go to court and file a lawsuit against those responsible for the injury (or for the underlying accident).
Other possibly helpful tidbits of info: Wolf in japanese is 'ookami' pronounced [oh-kah-me]. Oni [oh-knee], Mononoke [mo-noh-noh-kay], and Youkai [yo-k-eye] are all words to describe evil things, literal translations are oni=demonic ogre, mononoke=forest spirit (usually angry), and youkai=demon.
The Cryptid Zoo: Japanese Dwarf Wolf (or Shamanu) Today, Japan is supposed to have no wolves. Once, it had two types of native wolf, the Ezo wolf which lived on the northern island called Hokkaido and a wolf called the shamanu which lived in the south.