The situation is hard to bear in Japan.We have been reporting here on TGP about the grave situation involving the surge of bear population in Japan, and the resulting record number of attacks on humans.The situation is no joke, and has involved law enforcement and the military in the effort to cull populations, but so far, the situation does no seem to have improved.Here you have a collection of stories dealing with varied aspects of this crisis.Japanese Army Called To Tackle Out-of-Control Bear Population Responsible for 73 Attacks in One Month (VIDEOS)Japanese Riot Police Authorized To Use Rifles To Cull Out-of-Control Bear Populations After Record Number of Attacks on HumansUS State Department Warns Americans in Japan To Beware of Bear Attacks, as Police and Military Are Culling the Out-Of-Control Ursine Populations (VIDEOS)Japanese Woman Killed by Bear Attack as Apex Predators Emerge From HibernationToday, another bear attack left four people injured.The bear went on a rampage across in two factories and a residential area in northern Japan’s Fukushima.A bear injured four people after wandering into a residential area of Fukushima, Japan today.The bear first attacked two workers at a steel plant before moving into a nearby neighbourhood and injuring two more people, including an 80 year old woman.Schools were temporarily…— Volcaholic (@volcaholic1) June 2, 2026CBS News reported:“A record 13 people were killed by bears in Japan last year, and there has been a jump in sightings as the animals emerge hungry from hibernation.‘A bear-related human injury incident… occurred in Fukushima City, injuring four people’, the prefectural police said in a statement.The bear was first spotted in a car parts factory, prompting an emergency call explaining that ‘employees had been bitten’, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported, citing police and fire department officials. The outlet reported the bear still had not been located.”A bear attack injured four people in Fukushima City on Tuesday morning, and police are still searching for the animal.https://t.co/5WqIg3OMy7 pic.twitter.com/cOwGuyUZYM— The Japan News (@The_Japan_News) June 2, 2026Read more:Here Come the ‘Super Pigs’: Wild Crossbreed Boars Are Spreading Out of Control, Down From Canada to Northern US/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i