{"id":72906,"date":"2025-07-16T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/16\/hunter-missing-in-japan-as-spate-of-bear-attacks-triggers-emergency-to-be-declared-in-northern-town"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:26:07","slug":"hunter-missing-in-japan-as-spate-of-bear-attacks-triggers-emergency-to-be-declared-in-northern-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72906","title":{"rendered":"Hunter missing in Japan as spate of bear attacks triggers emergency to be declared in northern town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Search for missing man comes after series of attacks across Japan this month in which at least two people have died<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Japan are searching for a hunter who went missing on a mountain in Hokkaido near where a brown bear was recently spotted, amid a spate of deadly attacks by the animals that has triggered the declaration of a bear emergency in one town.<\/p>\n<p>The hunter was reported missing by a friend on Mt Esan on Tuesday afternoon in the northern island of Hokkaido after he failed to return home. A rifle believed to belong to the missing man was found on the side of a mountain road, and bloodstains were discovered nearby. A large brown bear was seen near the road on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/16\/hunter-missing-in-japan-as-spate-of-bear-attacks-triggers-emergency-to-be-declared-in-northern-town\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search for missing man comes after series of attacks across Japan this month in which at least two people have diedAuthorities in Japan are searching for a hunter who went missing on a mountain in Hokkaido near where a brown bear was recently spotted, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72906","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\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72907,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72906\/revisions\/72907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}