>>19073354
jap black bears are completely insane and aggressive as shit. all the outlaw mudshow villages are abandoned so they come super close to the cities and they're there to shoot on and tag jobbers for real
>>19073727
That is the most plausible reason. Typically wild animal contact in developed areas comes from habitat loss and disruption from human encroachment but it's not like there's rapid (or any) urban expansion in rural Japan where populations are stagnant or declining.