Bear attacks

This year there have been an increase of bear attacks in Japan and believed to be due to shortage of food in the mountains.

According to Belfast Telegraph, there has been around 84 attacks killing 4 people from April to September this year compared to 64 attacks last year.

I’ve heard stories of bears searching for food in autumn particularly eating kaki (persimmon) from people’s gardens but there seems to be a lot more bears roaming around for food now. I'm also very surprised there are a lot of reports of bear sightings in Ishikawa Prefecture where I stayed during exchange.

Here’s a video of a bear caught in Ishikawa Prefecture: (warning: contains a dead bear)