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