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On Nippon TV’s “Kazushige & Soshina’s Super Wide Show” (aired September 20), Kazushige Nagashima proposed tackling bear damage by culling wild boar, arguing that boars eat up bears’ food before the bears can get to it. The show also covered a Japanese black bear sighting on Mt. Takao and the emergency firearm hunt authorized by local officials in Maizuru, Kyoto. On 5ch, the show’s framing of the idea as something “no one has ever said before” drew heavy pushback — users pointed out that hunters and researchers have already been discussing this, while others argued the real drivers of increased bear sightings lie elsewhere, splitting opinion over how solid the proposal’s basis really is.
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Kazushige Nagashima (60), a former pro baseball player turned TV personality, appeared on Nippon TV’s “Kazushige & Soshina’s Super (Wide) Show” (Sundays 11 p.m.), which aired on the 20th. He put forward a concrete proposal for dealing with bear damage.
The show is a variety program in wide-show format. Nippon TV announcer Rina Sato (31) reported on the Japanese black bear sighting on Mt. Takao in Tokyo, as well as the appearance of what looked like a mother bear and cub in Maizuru, Kyoto, where local officials authorized an emergency firearm hunt allowing shooting at their discretion. She noted that the response had drawn more than 200 public comments.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
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Then just hunt the bears then.
"They eat first because their mouths are closer to the ground" is just an armchair observation; the real drivers of the sightings are poor beech-nut harvests, a growing bear population, and abandoned fruit orchards.
"Cull the boar" has already been floated as national policy. "No one has ever said this" is the biggest lie in the whole segment.
There's also "Kumakiri" (a surname using the kanji for "bear")
The first name that popped into my head was Igari Kanji
>"no one has ever said this"
Every hunter says this.
Deer steal bears' food too, so culling them matters just as much.
Yeah, that's how it goes.
So wearing a bell while hiking in the mountains actually backfires.
Guess that's not how it works these days.
No way.
With game meat, "it's good" just means it's edible if you prepare it well — it's nothing like comparing to farmed livestock.
There's talk that they're increasing in Iwate —
seems like they're spreading northward.
Is this actually true?
Sounds like the height of a fishy claim.
The "so" doesn't logically connect at all — total made-up nonsense.
Same logic as "short people pick up dropped money more easily" lol
People would go deep into the mountains to bring them back lol
Done right, you could wipe them out entirely lol
At ¥1 million a head, people's eyes would light up and they'd go all in.
You'd probably get people aiming to become professional bear hunters too.
They probably would if cornered, but
isn't hunting them just not worth the effort?
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Bear sightings in populated areas have piled up this year across places like Mt. Takao in Tokyo and Maizuru, Kyoto. “Emergency firearm hunting,” which lets local governments authorize gun use at their own discretion, is a mechanism newly created under the 2023 revision of Japan’s Wildlife Protection and Management Law. The theory floated on the show — that boars, with mouths closer to the ground, eat bears’ food first — was treated on the thread as a hard-to-verify anecdotal claim, with users noting it’s a separate issue from the causes experts actually cite for the rise in sightings (poor harvests of beech and other nuts, a growing bear population, and neglected fruit orchards and food waste). Many also pushed back on the framing itself — “no one has ever said this” — as an exaggeration, pointing out that hunters and researchers have long discussed the need to manage rising boar and deer populations. The thread also flagged a common misunderstanding around the term “natural predator”: boars aren’t actually predators of bears, but competitors for the same food.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Kazushige Nagashima: “No one has ever said this” — proposes a way to keep bears out of residential areas.”
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