{"id":24674,"date":"2020-11-12T02:59:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T17:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/nov\/11\/japanese-town-deploys-robot-wolves-to-ward-off-bear-attacks-video"},"modified":"2020-11-12T02:59:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T17:59:18","slug":"japanese-town-deploys-robot-wolves-to-ward-off-bear-attacks-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24674","title":{"rendered":"Japanese town deploys robot wolves to ward off bear attacks \u2013\u00a0video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese town has deployed robot wolves in an effort to scare away bears that have become an increasingly dangerous nuisance in the countryside.<\/p>\n<p>Bear sightings in Japan are at a five-year high and occur mostly in rural areas in western and northern&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>. There have been dozens of attacks so far in 2020, two of them fatal, prompting the government to convene an emergency meeting last month to address the threat<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/11\/japanese-town-deploys-monster-wolf-robots-to-deter-bears\">Japanese town deploys Monster Wolf robots to deter bears<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/nov\/11\/japanese-town-deploys-robot-wolves-to-ward-off-bear-attacks-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese town has deployed robot wolves in an effort to scare away bears that have become an increasingly dangerous nuisance in the countryside.Bear sightings in Japan are at a five-year high and occur mostly in rural areas in western and northern&amp;nb&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24675,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24674\/revisions\/24675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}