{"id":305429,"date":"2025-12-29T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/bells-and-whistles-how-our-reporter-prepared-for-visiting-bear-hotspot\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:00:46","slug":"bells-and-whistles-how-our-reporter-prepared-for-visiting-bear-hotspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/bells-and-whistles-how-our-reporter-prepared-for-visiting-bear-hotspot\/","title":{"rendered":"Bells and whistles: how our reporter prepared for visiting bear hotspot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/ofEjeHJnrCY\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Bells and whistles: how our reporter prepared for visiting bear hotspot\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ofEjeHJnrCY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The town of Osaki has been making the headlines as a bear hotspot as Japan reels from a year of record ursine encounters and deaths. 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