Because of (1) a shortage of nuts that bears normally eat before hibernation and (2) a shrinking human population in Japan’s remote villages, there has been an increase in bear attacks on people in the mountainous regions of northern Japan; the most in 10 years. …
NEWS/VIEWS – SAPPORO CITY, NORTHERN JAPAN: The story is typical in one way: a cat hoarding couple in their fifties failed to ensure that their cats were spayed and neutered which inevitably resulted in a totally unmanageable number of cats in their two story home …