t 1.3m long (shorter than most Japanese) this was only a small bear!
Bear mauls nine at Takayama bus terminal
GIFU (Kyodo) A bear assaulted nine people, most of them tourists, Saturday afternoon at a bus terminal
at the end of the Norikura Skyline road in the mountains of Takayama, Gifu Prefecture,
The rest of the group was slightly injured, the police and fire department headquarters in Takayama said.
Bear mauls nine at Takayama bus terminal | The Japan Times Online
This chap is looking at a sign which he translated as
“CAUTION! The Bear infests “now”!”
“the top character of the four vertical ones means “bear” in Japanese and Chinese. I hope they give foreigners guides if they go to wherever that is, if they write their safety signs only in Japanese!.
this is the sort of bear commonly found in this part of Asia
