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Forum members sometimes include a healthy respect for wild bears when asking other forum members for firearms/ammunition recommendations for their hiking or camping trips.

You would be interested to know that wild bears, one or more, have killed four people in the Akita Prefecture of Northern Japan in the last few weeks. I think the bears were identified as Asiatic black bears and the victims, mostly senior citizens, were out picking wild foodstuffs.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/13/warning-four-killed-bear-attacks-akita-japan
 

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Wow four killed already. I don't think that situation would have been allowed to get to that point in the U.S. or Canada...I think there would be a quicker response to put the bear down.

Some like to question the necessity of putting down (killing) a large predator (bear, gator, mt lion..etc) after they have killed or attacked a human, but it's been seen over and over that once they obtain a taste for human flesh and find out what easy prey we can be, the animal will continue to hunt humans. Apparently that's what is happening in this area of Japan.

Don
 
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Those bears look to be offshoots of the grizzly. They live in Russia and Alaska and some smaller ones probably in other countries. Not sure about Japan. The Japanese are a disarmed people. No one but cops or soldiers can shoot a bear. Not sure that even all cops there can be armed.

But our black bears kill more people than do grizzlies and more PREDATORY bear attacks here are by black bears, despite some thinking they aways run from people.

That said, grizzlies are very dangerous. So are Asiatic black bears and sloth bears. I'm just not sure that the bears in the pic are black bears. Maybe Bear Bio will see this and confirm?
 
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Yes, it is a common saying in our office, "It is ok that I cannot outrun this bear, I just have to be faster than you."
 
Quote from my uncle, A bear can run up to 35mph(Blackbear). The only thing a man can out run is a chicken.

We were up in the national forest on legal dirtbikes. We found a wild blueberry patch along side the dirt access road. We stopped to eat blueberries when we heard a low growl. We left.
 
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Why? Why would this interest me? Akita Prefecture is about 7,000-8,000 miles from me. I have zero chances of being attacked by Japanese bears, wild or otherwise.
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Well, it interests me and others. If you're uninterested, there are other topics that may apply more to your personal agenda.

Animal attacks interest many, as witness the very extensive coverage of the Canadian singer killed by coyotes in a park, or this week's hullabaloo about the kid taken by an alligator at Disney World, or the girl bitten by a shark off the Texas coast. None of those events directly impacts me, but I found them quite interesting, as I have an interest in dangerous animals and the types and frequency of their attacks.

No one here is going to be killed by a man-eating tiger in British India, but Jim Corbett's books remain popular.

As author James Clarke wryly noted in his excellent, "Man Is the Prey", "people like to know what's eating them."
 
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