{"id":719515,"date":"2026-06-06T18:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719515\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T18:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:43:11","slug":"in-japan-a-bull-market-for-bear-deterrents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/719515\/","title":{"rendered":"In Japan, a bull market for bear deterrents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 14, Atsushi Miyamae was scouting fishing spots by a forest path near the Obora Dam in Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture. At around 2 p.m., the avid angler and Tokyo-based architect heard rustling coming from beside the trail.<\/p>\n<p>He looked over to see an Asian black bear scrambling down the slope before it disappeared into the forest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been many bear sightings around here, and two years ago my older brother also encountered a cub,\u201d Miyamae says. \u201cThat\u2019s why I always come prepared. I carry a bear bell, bear spray and a machete.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On May 14, Atsushi Miyamae was scouting fishing spots by a forest path near the Obora Dam in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[74716,1313,64,63,4632,75,29863,4633,241180,15031,34574,128,338],"class_list":["post-719515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-akita","tag-animals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bears","tag-environment","tag-hokkaido","tag-hunting","tag-karuizawa","tag-national-parks","tag-rural-life","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719515","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=719515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}