It feels like people in Japan are getting eaten by brown bears at a rate equivalent to about 30% of murder cases recently, but I won't know for sure until I actually run the numbers.
Let's do a fact check.
In reality, the number of people attacked by bears 🐻 is 197 per year. Of those, 6 are killed annually.
Source:
www.env.go.jp/nature/choju/effort/effort12/kuma-situation.pdf
According to 2023 statistics, the annual number of homicides at the time was 912, which means that in Japan, bear 🐻 attacks actually occur at a frequency of about 20-25% of the homicide rate.
Still, Japan is so peaceful with fewer than 1,000 murders a year.
