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Japan Is Fighting a War Against Bears. The Bears Are Winning.

Outside Online NM

Apr 7, 2026

I stepped off the bus from Tokyo and into a dense fog. The town of Kazuno, in Japan's rural Akita prefecture, looked nearly abandoned. I'd arrived expecting the pastoral whimsy of…

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