TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – About 240 kilometres northwest of Tokyo, in a slivered valley that leads to the Sea of Japan, lies a sleepy pocket of the nation’s ski country called Myoko Kogen. Bustling in the 1980s bubble era with young skiers and neon-lit streets, the area has now seen better days. But in the coming […]
A man found dead with head and other injuries Oct. 14 was likely mauled by a bear living in the forested mountainous area of Iiyama City, Nagano Prefecture, where he had gone to check on a boar trap he set, police said.