{"id":68456,"date":"2024-12-23T13:41:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T04:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/23\/japan-relaxes-bear-shooting-laws-amid-rise-in-attacks"},"modified":"2024-12-23T13:41:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T04:41:36","slug":"japan-relaxes-bear-shooting-laws-amid-rise-in-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68456","title":{"rendered":"Japan relaxes bear-shooting laws amid rise in attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities relax laws to make it easier for hunters to carry out \u2018emergency shootings\u2019 when bears are spotted in populated areas<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> is to relax its strict hunting laws to make it easier to shoot bears, amid a rise in dangerous encounters with the animals in built-up areas as their numbers increase and their natural habitat dwindles.<\/p>\n<p>The government will revise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/conservation\">wildlife protection<\/a> and management laws to give local councils the power to authorise hunters to carry out \u201cemergency shootings\u201d when bears are spotted in populated neighbourhoods, the Kyodo news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/23\/japan-relaxes-bear-shooting-laws-amid-rise-in-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities relax laws to make it easier for hunters to carry out \u2018emergency shootings\u2019 when bears are spotted in populated areasJapan is to relax its strict hunting laws to make it easier to shoot bears, amid a rise in dangerous encounters with the an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"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":[88,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68456","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68457,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68456\/revisions\/68457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}