From what I understand, the ones doing the killing in Akita are Asian black bears, as opposed to the bigger brown bears you can find in Hokkaido (so much for #NotAllBears...), so they're not as fearsome. Still, they're plenty vicious enough to kill the mainly elderly farmers and foragers still left in the region, such as the single bear in 2016 which ate four different elderly people in separate attacks, and the killing intent is there.

I think the cops are just there just to keep nosy humans out of the scene of the latest attack while they make a perfunctory search of the area, then they'll soon be gone again.

From what I understand, the ones doing the killing in Akita are Asian black bears, as opposed to the bigger brown bears you can find in Hokkaido (so much for #NotAllBears...), so they're not as fearsome. Still, they're plenty vicious enough to kill the mainly elderly farmers and foragers still left in the region, such as the single bear in 2016 which ate four different elderly people in separate attacks, and the killing intent is there.

I think the cops are just there just to keep nosy humans out of the scene of the latest attack while they make a perfunctory search of the area, then they'll soo be gone again.

From what I understand, the ones doing the killing in Akita are Asian black bears, as opposed to the bigger brown bears you can find in Hokkaido (so much for #NotAllBears...), so they're not as fearsome. Still, they're plenty vicious enough to kill the mainly elderly farmers and foragers still left in the region, such as the single bear in 2016 which ate four different elderly people in separate attacks, and the killing intent is there.