Japan had 177 people attacked by bears this year. It appears to be many more people are attacked by a bears in Japan than are attacked by bears in the USA.
I didn’t even realize that Japan had bears.
Yet the Japanese make such an effort to emphasize the mysterious and surely paranormal likelihood of any mountain hiker that goes missing.
Ive seen more than one show and read a number of articles about the missing but no one ever mentions bears in Japan outside of ancient Ainu bear cult references as though the bears disappeared along with oni and sea dragons.