{"id":75050,"date":"2025-11-06T14:45:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/06\/japan-searching-for-cause-of-surge-of-bear-attacks"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:45:59","slug":"as-japan-experiences-a-surge-in-bear-attacks-survivors-share-grisly-stories-of-blood-bites-and-broken-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75050","title":{"rendered":"As Japan experiences a surge in bear attacks, survivors share grisly stories of blood, bites and broken bones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A record 13 people have died in bear attacks in Japan this year \u2013 with experts blaming food shortages as the animals venture further into residential areas<\/p>\n<p>Loud conversations, whistles and, when all else fails, a plastic bottle are among the precautions authorities in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> are urging people to take to counter a surge in bear attacks.<\/p>\n<p>It was a bell that Billy Halloran had to hand during a confrontation in the foothills of Myoko, northern Japan, last month. The 32-year-old New Zealander was settling into an 8km run when he spotted two Asiatic black bears about 30 metres ahead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/06\/japan-searching-for-cause-of-surge-of-bear-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record 13 people have died in bear attacks in Japan this year \u2013 with experts blaming food shortages as the animals venture further into residential areasLoud conversations, whistles and, when all else fails, a plastic bottle are among the precautions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5053,"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":[265,41,456,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-conservation","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75050","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\/5053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75051,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75050\/revisions\/75051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}