{"id":37503,"date":"2021-09-30T14:58:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T05:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/30\/roar-roar-roar-japan-rolls-out-rock-music-against-bear-attacks"},"modified":"2021-09-30T14:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T05:58:28","slug":"roar-roar-roar-japan-rolls-out-rock-music-against-bear-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37503","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Roar, roar, roar!\u2019 Japan rolls out rock music against bear attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities hope rock\u2019n\u2019roll song will help people of Iwate prefecture stay safe as number of bear sightings rises<\/p>\n<p>Can rock\u2019n\u2019roll keep people safe from bear attacks? One Japanese region is hoping so, and has commissioned a cautionary anthem warning residents about the threat of its ursine inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>Bears are common across Japan and regularly spark frantic hunts when they venture into towns, where they have attacked and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jun\/13\/warning-four-killed-bear-attacks-akita-japan\">even killed residents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/30\/roar-roar-roar-japan-rolls-out-rock-music-against-bear-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities hope rock\u2019n\u2019roll song will help people of Iwate prefecture stay safe as number of bear sightings risesCan rock\u2019n\u2019roll keep people safe from bear attacks? One Japanese region is hoping so, and has commissioned a cautionary anthem warning res&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,88,425,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-music","category-wildlife","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\/37503","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37504,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37503\/revisions\/37504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}