A bear was spotted Wednesday at Amanohashidate in Kyoto Prefecture, one of Japan’s traditional “Three Scenic Views,” and was later captured after swimming in waters there.<\/p>\n
Local authorities say the bear was first reported by a passerby at around 4:30 p.m. on the northern side of the pine-covered sandbar.<\/p>\n
Officials say it moved about 300 meters south before entering the water. It later headed back north and entered a residential area.<\/p>\n
The bear remained in a wooded area before being captured shortly after 10:30 p.m. after being sedated with two tranquilizer shots. No one was injured.<\/p>\n
Officials say the animal is a male Asian black bear, measuring about 1.3 meters long and weighing 97 kilograms.<\/p>\n
The prefecture closed a roughly 3-kilometer road through the sandbar following the sighting, but plans to reopen it at 9 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bear was spotted Wednesday at Amanohashidate in Kyoto Prefecture, one of Japan’s traditional “Three Scenic Views,” and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633022,"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":["post-633021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-asia","tag-biz","tag-japan","tag-japan-broadcasting-corporation","tag-news","tag-nhk","tag-nhk-world","tag-nhk-world-premium","tag-nhk-world-tv","tag-nhkworld","tag-nuclear","tag-public-broadcaster","tag-radio-japan","tag-science","tag-tech","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633021","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=633021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}