{"id":75799,"date":"2025-12-30T00:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T15:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/dec\/29\/reporter-visiting-bear-hotspot-japan-video"},"modified":"2025-12-30T00:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T15:17:01","slug":"bells-and-whistles-how-our-reporter-prepared-for-visiting-bear-hotspot-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75799","title":{"rendered":"Bells and whistles: how our reporter prepared for visiting bear hotspot \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The town of Osaki has been making the headlines as a bear hotspot as Japan reels from a year of record ursine encounters and deaths. The Guardian\u2019s Justin McCurry visited Naruko Onsen hot springs in the north-eastern town, equipped with bells and whistles to ward off any bears<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/29\/osaki-japan-town-record-bear-encounters-2025\">Japanese town reeling from year of record bear encounters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/dec\/29\/reporter-visiting-bear-hotspot-japan-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The town of Osaki has been making the headlines as a bear hotspot as Japan reels from a year of record ursine encounters and deaths. The Guardian\u2019s Justin McCurry visited Naruko Onsen hot springs in the north-eastern town, equipped with bells and whist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[265,41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75799","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75800,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75799\/revisions\/75800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}