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   Kotaro (kotaro@kotaro.me)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 12:39:04 JST Kotaro

   In short, thanks to the efforts of the police and social welfare services, public safety in Japan has improved. Combined with the country's continuing population decline, the number of murder cases has become so low that they can no longer dominate the evening news. Instead, incidents involving bears 🐻 have become relatively more prominent.

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     Kotaro (kotaro@kotaro.me)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 12:39:01 JST Kotaro

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     • rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

     @GustavinoBevilacqua Perhaps the people of Japan are being too deferential toward wild bears 🐻.

     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     Kotaro (kotaro@kotaro.me)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 12:39:01 JST Kotaro

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     • rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

     @GustavinoBevilacqua In North America, only two people are eaten by bears each year, but in Japan, seven people have already been eaten this year. There are still a little over two months left until the end of the year.

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     Kotaro (kotaro@kotaro.me)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 12:39:03 JST Kotaro

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     • rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

     @GustavinoBevilacqua This is just my imagination, but I wonder if in countries like Germany and Norway, which are about the same size as Japan, there are also lots of bears 🐻 and many people get eaten by them, but it just doesn't make the evening news because the murder rate in those countries is so high.

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     rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua (gustavinobevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 12:39:03 JST rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

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     @kotaro
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     .In Norway in 2020 there were just 250 brown bears… so the danger is for them!

     https://www.lifeinnorway.net/bears-in-norway/

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     rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua (gustavinobevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Oct-2025 12:39:04 JST rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

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     @kotaro

     Since evening news maps often give a geographically distorted view, I think it's useful to remember that the land area of Japan (364k km²) is between that of Germany (349k km²) and Norway (367k km²).

     Alas, on Wikipedia there isn't (yet) a page "List of countries by density of bears".

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area