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Japanese town
Coverage of Japanese town in the Nexus archive.
- Japan officials hunt bear that raided couple’s fridge amid string of break-ins
Japanese officials are searching for an Asiatic black bear suspected of breaking into 14 homes in a town over two weeks, including the home of an elderly couple where the bear raided their fridge. Authorities have deployed traps and electric fences to capture the animal.
- Japan's love-hate relationship with bears
A town north of Tokyo closed nearly 100 schools due to bear sightings, while another Japanese town experienced a bear attack involving four people and property damage. Kazuhiko Maita, a researcher from the Institute for Asian Black Bear Research and Preservation, discusses the crisis.