Hi John, I'm neither, just an amateur enthusiast and budding naturalist like most of us here.
Hi Ammar. No, I wouldn't have had the space or the time to care for them properly, and more importantly,
C. pyrrhogaster is very, very scarce now in the area around Tokyo due mainly to habitat loss, so taking these from the wild would only have worsened an already serious problem.
The frog photographed together with the newt was caught by some kid -- who hopefully released both as his dad said he would. There sure were tadpoles galore there, but no, frogs are not really my thing -- though I've raised tadpoles of one isolated group of
Bufo japonicus for re-release as morphs on two occasions in the last two years:
http://www.caudata.org/forum/messages/24791/12926.html?1084854637
...and intend to make this an annual thing