Posted on 11/18/2023 4:37:41 AM PST by marktwain
From 2007 to the present (2023), there have been more fatal bear attacks in Japan than in the United States. It is possible there have been more total bear attacks in Japan than in the United States, but records of total attacks are not as clear. Through the end of October of 2023, there were 180 bear attacks where a person was injured in Japan. From JapanNews:
Tokyo, Nov. 1 (Jiji Press)—The number of people attacked by bears in Japan between April and October totaled 180, already a record high on a fiscal year basis since the statistics started in fiscal 2006, the Environment Ministry said in a preliminary report Wednesday.
The previous record high was 158 marked in fiscal 2020.
The ministry is calling for maximum vigilance until the bears go into hibernation, due to the poor acorn crop mainly in the Tohoku northeastern Japan region.
Five people have been killed in attacks by bears so far in fiscal 2023, which started in April.
While there is no central registry of all bear attacks in the United States, fatal bear attacks are well-recorded in the media. Different websites keep track of fatal bear attacks in North America. The location of each attack is noted. The number of fatal bear attacks in the United States can be determined.
The number of fatal bear attacks in the United States for 2023, as of November 14th, was four. Two people were killed by a polar bear, one person was killed by a black bear, and one person was killed by a brown bear. The number of fatalities in 2023 was one more for Japan than the United States. One year does not tell the story. Reports online show Japanese fatal bear attacks from 2007. Japan started keeping records in 2006.
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Not a lot of polar bears in the lower 48. I have not seen one in years and years here in Texas or Oklahoma. I hear there have been a few seen in Arkansas and Louisiana though.
I bet the bears are hungry 20 minutes later.
Jorogumo, maybe kappa, sure. No bears.
Idiots went through a lot of barriers to get into the enclosure at the zoo.
About 2000 polar bears in the USA, very far northwest of Alaska. They are out at sea most of the time.
They have 2 bear types in japan- a brown bear, and a black bear- the black bear is related to the asiatic bear which if I remeber correctly is very aggressive and foul tempered. Both types are dangerous, but i beleive the Japanese black bear goes out of its way to be aggresive
[[Five people have been killed in attacks by bears so far in fiscal 2023]]
The bears were drunk driving no doubt.
You don’t wanna eat raw bear- trichinosis is a problem in undercooked bears meat.
Chuck was bit by a bear once. The bear apologized and turned itself into a rug for him.
The Asiatic black bear and the American black bear are closely related, but are different species.
The Hokkaido brown bear and American brown/grizzly bear are subspecies of the same brown bear species which exists from Europe, through Asia, into the USA.
I remeber a Josh gate expedition to Japan looking for evidence of sasquatch. They set up camp, and that night a bear entered their camp site area- supposedly bears had gone extinct there which is why folks seeing something thought they were seeing bigfoot- but turns out the brown bears are still there, just not as many as there used to be, so folks were not used to seeing them.
Japans bear density and human density is far greater than the us or Canada. Encounters are more likely
Japan has Asian black bears, not the same species as the North American black bear.
Maybe theirs are more aggressive.
Seems I recall having heard about those Polar Baears up north but I also hear they are all drowning. It is a huge manatee.
Good Moves Amigo!
This is totally unfair!! Why is the United States lagging other countries in the important categories?? Maybe we need to import some Japanese bears to train our lazy ones to pump them numbers up into a respectable pace. just an idea.
Time to go into the bear rug business market is ripe for it.
Free The Bears!
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A thread to sink your teeth into!
Every time I have seen (black) bear in the wild, it was running away from me like crazy.
But in National Parks and similar venues, they seem not to care!
Obviously, they lost the fear of men.
From there, there is just a little step up to fatal attacks.
Got no use for bears they are too dangerous! American black bear is okay but the others are scary AF.
“The men there had bunched up, with lines of fire blocked by the guard at their head, whose own rifle misfired. Amid the general confusion and risk of crossfire, the bear escaped into the night. ”
Dang , a lot of the hunt for the bear was chaotic. Best described as a Chinese fire drill. But it indeed was a cunning Animal.
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