{"id":712317,"date":"2026-06-03T09:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/712317\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:53:22","slug":"bear-goes-on-rampage-in-japan-injuring-four-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/712317\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear goes on rampage in Japan, injuring four people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last fiscal year to March, bear sightings nationwide topped 50,000, more than double the previous record set two years earlier, according to official data.<\/p>\n<p>The animals were seen entering homes, roaming near schools and rampaging through supermarkets and hot spring resorts on an almost daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>Record sightings have been reported again this year as the bears emerge from their winter slumber, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/east-asia\/bear-attack-fatal-japan-first-year-iwate-prefecture-6108681\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In April, bear attacks killed one person<\/a> and injured five others, according to the environment ministry.<\/p>\n<p>There have also been more than a dozen bear sightings reported on the outskirts of Tokyo this year, with a Russian man in his 30s reportedly mauled as he hiked in the city last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the last fiscal year to March, bear sightings nationwide topped 50,000, more than double the previous record&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,95068,941,128,338],"class_list":["post-712317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bear","tag-japan","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712317","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=712317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}