Posted on 10/20/2025 12:31:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Bear doing bear stuff ping.
I’m on the bears’ side. They were there first.
His partner, who couldn’t run as fast, didn’t fare as well.
Bears will make you run faster................
That will make anyone pick up the pace.
More people are killed by bears in Japan than are killed by bears in the United States.
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I was wondering about this, apparently Asiatic black bears are not like the almost harmless black bears we have in the states. I assume the Japanese are disarmed, but is bear spray a thing in Japan?
I’m on the bears’ side. They were there first.
In the USA below Canada, people were here before grizzly bears.
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I assume the Japanese are disarmed, but is bear spray a thing in Japan?
It is legal to purchase. You need a plausible reason to carry it. Hiking in bear country almost certainly qualifies.
It appears difficult to get at present.
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15407568
Hey jack. Joe Biden would have killed that bear with his powerful bear hands.
Obviously there are going to be problems, bears cant read kanji.
Obviously, no one told the bear WWII ended, and this bear was merely protecting the homeland and the glory of the emperor....
The problem could be that the bears cannot read Japanese and do not know they shouldn’t be attacking humans.
Lessee, what can be done about this?.....
What about the Japanese saying, a haiku a day keeps the bears at bay?
Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear.
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Not fuzzy was he.
The rural areas of Japan are becoming depopulated, and in the absence of human activity bears become more apex predators.
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