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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The attacks started ramping up as the bear populations were more and more protected.
From 2007 to present, inclusive, 37 people killed by bears in Japan vs 33 people killed by bears in the United States.
What about Canada?
This supports the Briben administration introducing grizzlies into NW US. /s
Nothing some common sense bear laws, registration, red flag, assault bear bans, etc. wouldn’t solve.
Oh, wait! None of these solve anything. Nevermind.
Got to pump those numbers up or else they won't get as much funding next year.
Go to a U.S. or Canadian national park and watch the visitors who go out and try to take photos next to an elk or Buffalo in the wild. A disproportionate number of those nitwits are Asian tourists.
Canada will have to be another article.
They have a fair number of fatal bear attacks. It appears they have more fatal black bear and polar bear attacks than the USA.
There are many variables. With many independent variables, it is difficult to know exactly what is causing what.
However, we know both the USA and Japan started protecting the bears much more.
The bear populations grew significantly in both countries.
Fatal attacks by bears on people grew significantly in both countries.
Tastes like sushi?
Are tree hugging Japs more likely to go out of their way to try to pet a bear?
“It’s not just that Japanese people are unarmed. They also tend to be clueless when it comes to interacting with wildlife.”
A lot of it comes from respect by the bears. They have learned that people shoot guns and are a threat so they will retreat many times if confronted. And even Chuck Norris knows a roundhouse kick is not real effective against a 600 pound black bear.
wy69
And they don’t even have the right to arm bears out there.
Add moose to the list!
In the 80’s in YNP a French photographer gave his camera to another tourist to ‘take a photo of him next to a moose.’
The photo was of the moose removing the French photographers head and tossing it 30 feet or so.
A man was attacked by a moose a few summers ago not too far from my home — he was walking over to his dog when a moose trampled him causing him to need over 150 stitches (all to his face and scalp).
Can they carry guns in Japan?
Moose?
My sister was bit by a Moose,
Very Painful.
It’s because they keep trying to karate chop the bears.
That poor moose!
That’s funny stuff.. :) It’s been around for a long time..
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