{"id":115144,"date":"2025-11-01T01:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/115144\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T01:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:39:11","slug":"japans-government-ramps-up-bear-control-efforts-amid-rise-in-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/115144\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s government ramps up bear control efforts amid rise in attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government said Thursday that it will renew by mid-November measures to deal with the rising number of bear attacks nationwide \u2014 12 fatal since April \u2014 as more bears are seen roaming around residential areas in the north of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The ministers of environment, education, agriculture, internal affairs, transport and defense and the National Public Safety Commission attended a government meeting on the day to discuss countermeasures for the animal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn increasing number of bears have been entering residential areas in many regions this year &#8230; leading to a rise in the number of casualties, with more diversity in the extent of damage and across a wider area,\u201d said Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara on Thursday. \u201cThis is a serious situation that threatens the safety and security of the public.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government said Thursday that it will renew by mid-November measures to deal with the rising number of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[264,30104,61,60,26965,69444,69442,82,69445,25205,263,69443],"class_list":{"0":"post-115144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-bears","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-local-government","13":"tag-minoru-kihara","14":"tag-norikazu-suzuki","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-sdf","17":"tag-shinjiro-koizumi","18":"tag-wildlife","19":"tag-yohei-matsumoto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}