Photos: A Bear-Emergency-Response Drill in Japan
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With a recent increase in bear sightings and incidents in rural Japan, local communities are taking steps to prepare for such encounters. In the small city of Yaita, officials and residents worked together recently to practice their bear-emergency response, acting out a simulation on the campus of a primary school.

