Over 200 people have been injured in the past year by bears and there have been six reported fatalities, according to the Japanese Ministry of Environment. Most of those attacks have come in the Tohoku region of the country—the northern part of Japan's largest and most populated island. In 2022, some 158 people were attacked.

Early detection system raises the alarm if Ussuri brown bears, whose food supply in the mountains is dwindling, stray too close to towns in search of food

The Japanese government is planning to trial an artificial intelligence system for spotting wild bears to better deal with an increas