{"id":59495,"date":"2023-10-29T19:12:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/29\/japan-rise-bear-attacks-food-struggle"},"modified":"2023-10-29T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T10:12:09","slug":"sharp-rise-in-bear-attacks-in-japan-as-they-struggle-to-find-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59495","title":{"rendered":"Sharp rise in bear attacks in Japan as they struggle to find food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid lack of acorns and beechnuts in natural habitats, bears have injured 158 people and killed two since April<\/p>\n<p>Experts in Japan have warned that bear attacks are rising at an unprecedented rate, as the animals struggle to find food in their natural habitat.<\/p>\n<p>Bears have caused at least 158 injuries and two deaths since April, equalling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.env.go.jp\/nature\/choju\/effort\/effort12\/injury-qe.pdf\">record set in 2020<\/a>, according to media reports. Most of the attacks occurred in the northern part of Honshu, Japan\u2019s biggest island, the environment ministry said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/29\/japan-rise-bear-attacks-food-struggle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid lack of acorns and beechnuts in natural habitats, bears have injured 158 people and killed two since AprilExperts in Japan have warned that bear attacks are rising at an unprecedented rate, as the animals struggle to find food in their natural hab&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[265,41,65,88,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-japan","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\/59495","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59496,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59495\/revisions\/59496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}