{"id":74922,"date":"2025-10-27T13:55:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/27\/bear-attack-survival-tips-released-in-japan-as-encounters-surge"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:55:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T04:55:05","slug":"bear-attack-survival-tips-released-in-japan-as-encounters-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74922","title":{"rendered":"Bear attack survival tips released in Japan as encounters surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of one prefecture says he is considering asking the military for help to tackle increasing attacks amid thousands-strong bear population<\/p>\n<p>Knowing what to do in the event of a close encounter with a bear was once a concern only for hikers and foragers in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>. Now, however, people in populated areas are being urged to learn how to protect themselves following a spate of attacks, as the animals leave their natural habitats in search of food.<\/p>\n<p>Bear encounters are generating almost daily headlines. In the past week in Akita prefecture, the animals attacked a jogger and a walker in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/02\/akita-japan-bear-attack-supermarket-captured\">built-up areas<\/a>, while another terrorised four people before holing up inside a nearby house. None of the victims was seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/27\/bear-attack-survival-tips-released-in-japan-as-encounters-surge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of one prefecture says he is considering asking the military for help to tackle increasing attacks amid thousands-strong bear populationKnowing what to do in the event of a close encounter with a bear was once a concern only for hikers and for&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","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\/74922","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=74922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74923,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74922\/revisions\/74923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}