Bears have killed 17 people in Japan this year. Locals are arming up

ABC News reports that bears have killed seventeen people in Japan this year, prompting some locals to arm themselves. One man, whose home town sits about an hour by bullet train north of Tokyo, says he first dismissed reports of a bear roaming the streets as fake news. The feed doesn't include further detail.

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