{"id":266910,"date":"2025-11-17T00:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/266910\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T00:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:16:09","slug":"bear-culled-after-entering-retail-facility-in-japans-akita-prefecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/266910\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear culled after entering retail facility in Japan&#8217;s Akita Prefecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bear was culled after it entered a commercial building in Japan&#8217;s northeastern prefecture of Akita on Sunday. Police say no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Police received a report at around 11:20 a.m. that workers had confined a bear inside a facility operated by Japanese retail giant Aeon in the city of Noshiro.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the bear was about 80 centimeters long, and that it remained on the first floor. They cordoned off the facility and restricted traffic on nearby roads.<\/p>\n<p>City officials say Akita prefectural staff later tranquilized the bear with a blow dart. The animal was culled in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The facility is located in a residential neighborhood, about 1 kilometer northwest of JR Noshiro Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bear was culled after it entered a commercial building in Japan&#8217;s northeastern prefecture of Akita on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1487,40850,386,40852,50,40851,40855,40856,40857,40854,11712,40853,40858,90,227,56,54,55,4407,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-266910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-biz","10":"tag-japan","11":"tag-japan-broadcasting-corporation","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nhk","14":"tag-nhk-world","15":"tag-nhk-world-premium","16":"tag-nhk-world-tv","17":"tag-nhkworld","18":"tag-nuclear","19":"tag-public-broadcaster","20":"tag-radio-japan","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-tech","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-unitedkingdom","26":"tag-wildlife","27":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}