TOKYO (Reuters) - Scarce acorns, silent guns and rural depopulation are bringing Japan's bears out of the woods.
The number of Japanese black bears caught feasting in fields of sweet corn, apples and other crops has jumped this year, with the animals increasingly undisturbed by hunters, whose ranks are dwindling as the population ages.
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