{"id":13272,"date":"2025-07-22T11:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13272\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:34:07","slug":"elementary-school-students-in-iwate-japan-learn-how-to-avoid-bear-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13272\/","title":{"rendered":"Elementary school students in Iwate, Japan learn how to avoid bear attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#999 !important\">  July 22, 2025<\/p>\n<p>ICHINOSEKI \u2013 Children learned how to avoid being injured by bears on Thursday at Higashiyama Elementary School in Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, amid a series of bear sightings in the vicinity of the school.<\/p>\n<p>A city official explained the nature and habits of bears to 170 students and instructed them to carry bells, radios and other noisemakers in order to avoid encountering bears.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, police officers from the local police station performed a skit, instructing the children to back away slowly and not rush when they encounter a bear.<\/p>\n<p>An 11-year-old boy said: \u201cI am worried that I might encounter a bear at any moment. I want to use what I learned to protect my life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 22, 2025 ICHINOSEKI \u2013 Children learned how to avoid being injured by bears on Thursday at Higashiyama&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,2555,941,14975,128,14976,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-13272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-japan","12":"tag-national-affairs","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-the-japan-news","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}