Bear enters Aeon shopping mall in Akita Pref., killed over 2 hours later

The bears are really bold this year! It’s very scary since we love to go to Tohoku during autumn koyo season.

by SkyInJapan

14 comments
  1. If the government doesn’t do something soon, people are gonna start using home made guns to kill the bears

  2. > It was tranquilized by a blow dart before being killed by electric shock more than two hours later.

    I wonder if they were puzzling over what to do for 2 hours. Or whether they were waiting for the guy with the stun gun to arrive.

  3. Though this happened last year too, this year has been much more concerning as the bears really have been demonstrating much more concerning behavior due to the lack of food in the mountains and forests for them…

  4. They need to have planted more oaks and beach trees or other indigenous trees which produce nuts. These abandoned sugi forests are the cause of this. The bears are starving. They dont naturally want to be in these human environments but obviously are desperate and once they know food is in them of course they will return again and again.

    Get rid of these dumb sugi forests and restore mountains with indigenous trees which produce food for them

  5. On the bright side it seems that foreigner-blaming is getting a break with all these bear and 3AM meeting scandals.

  6. They really need to get the bear visa passed.

    If they can create foreign teaching programs like JET, then they can surely afford to create a bear hunting foreigner visa program.

    It is a perfect win-win for the government. They can raise the public perception of foreigners that are under such scrutiny by publicizing bear slaying achievements and rankings. Create a 12-month contract (much like teaching), supply a jeep, tent, and remotely shipped boxed food sets on hiking trails around Japan.

    Just double the pay of JET contracts, and they will have endless applicants.

  7. so surprising and unbelievable…

    I was born in Sapporo, but never heard news like this year.I built app below to save people and Japan.
    hopefully, save for your precious one.
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