Japan uses bid forces to divide it by deadly offensive attacks

Tokyo – Japan’s Ministry of Defense sent troops on Wednesday to the northern region of Akita to help contain a The attack of the attack of the case that becomes the dreaded citizens of the mountain region.

Bears have swarmed nearby schools, train stations, shopping malls and the hot Springs Resort, with attacks from the animals being reported almost daily in Japan, especially in the north.

Since April, more than 100 people have been injured and at least 12 killed in attacks across Japan, according to environmental ministry figures in late October. This is it the highest number of people killed by animals In the country in one fiscal year since 2006, when the ministry started compiling statistics.

“Every day, they are pouring into residential areas in the region and their impact is increasing,” Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Fumitoshi Sato told reporters. “Answers to the bear problem are an urgent matter.”

The Ministry of Defense and Akita Prefecture signed an agreement in Troop Dispatch on Wednesday afternoon, allowing the troops to set box traps with food inside, send local hunters and help to find dead bears. The soldiers will not use guns to kill the bears, officials said.

Akita Gov. Kenta Suzuki said that the local authorities are getting “desperate” due to the lack of major power amid the NAMEDA reports.

Minister of Defense Shyjiro Koizumi on Tuesday the meeting of the bear aims to help protect the lives of everyday people, but that the defense of the service of the members of the protection of the members of the defense throughout the country and they will not be able to provide unlimited support for the response of the bear. Japan’s SDF is already inactive.

So far, the ministry has received no other requests for military assistance over the bear issue, he said.

In Akita Prefecture, which has a population of about 880,000, bears have attacked more than 50 people since May, killing at least four, according to local governments. Experts say that 70% of crime attacks occur in residential areas.

An elderly woman who went mushroom-hunting in the forest was found dead in an apparent attack over the weekend in the city of Yuzawa. An elderly man in the city of Akita encountered a bear while working on a farm and was killed in late October. And the subject of a newspaper report was attacked and injured by a bear in the city of Akita on Tuesday.

Experts say Japan’s aging and depopulation Rural areas are among the reasons for the growing bear problem in recent years.

Abandoned neighborhoods and farms with persimmon or chestnut trees often attract bears to residential areas. As soon as the bear finds food and gets a taste, they keep coming back, experts say.

Local hunters are getting old and can no longer be used for hunting. Experts say police and other authorities should be trained as government hunters “to help eradicate the animals.”

The government suspended work last week to create an official response to the bear by mid-November. Authorities are considering Bar Population surveys, the use of communication devices to issue warnings and revisions to hunting laws. They say experts should be trained in hunting and nature.

A lack of prevention measures in the construction and aging of both the northern and northern regions has led to an increase in the population of brown bears and black bears, the department said.