{"id":1414,"date":"2025-06-26T18:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bear-roaming-runway-halts-flights-at-japanese-airport\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:02:25","slug":"bear-roaming-runway-halts-flights-at-japanese-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bear-roaming-runway-halts-flights-at-japanese-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear roaming runway halts flights at Japanese airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>A bear roaming the runway forced a Japanese airport to cancel flights on Thursday and declare itself off-limits to passengers for the day.<\/p>\n<p>The black bear appeared at northern Japan&rsquo;s Yamagata Airport early morning, immediately prompting the closure of its runway.<\/p>\n<p>This first sighting resulted in a delay of up to an hour of four flights, before the animal reemerged around noon, this time &ldquo;running&rdquo; on the runway.<\/p>\n<p>Airport staff used a car to chase it away and closed the runway again, with the bear still at large somewhere in the facility.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Given the situation there is no way we can host plane arrivals now,&rdquo; Yamagata Airport official Akira Nagai said Thursday evening, adding the second closure led to 12 flight cancellations.<\/p>\n<p>With hunters brought in to set up a trap and police officers surrounding the airport to prevent the bear from escaping, &ldquo;we&rsquo;re in a stalemate now&rdquo;, Nagai said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>The facility plans to keep the runway closed till around 8:00 pm, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Human encounters with bears have reached record levels in Japan, with 219 people attacked and six deaths in the 12 months to April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a bear sighting brought a premature end to a golf tournament in central Japan, with organizers citing safety precautions.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change affecting food sources and hibernation times, along with depopulation caused by an aging society, are causing bears to venture into towns more frequently, scientists say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Bear roaming runway halts flights at Japanese airport<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bear roaming the runway forced a Japanese airport to cancel flights on Thursday and declare itself off-limits to passengers for the day. The black bear appeared at northern Japan&rsquo;s Yamagata Airport early morning, immediately prompting the closure of its runway. This first sighting resulted in a delay of up to an hour of four&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bear-roaming-runway-halts-flights-at-japanese-airport\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Bear roaming runway halts flights at Japanese airport&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}