Jay Allen

Hello, Clare.

Thanks for having me on tonight.

Yeah, that's the first thing I've seen in the Western press.

Not so much in the Japanese press, but it does seem pretty smart.

The incident started in a company car park where what appeared to be a wild bear was caught on CCTV cameras mauling an employee.

A passerby drove by with a car and scared it off.

But then the bear ran inside to a building, attacked a second man, and it hurt another two people before holing up in a factory.

This was on a Wednesday.

It caused a mix of serious and minor injuries.

And as of today, Friday, it is still on the loose.

They did get him with a tranquilizer dart.

The officials here in Japan and in Fukushima admit they don't really know why the dart didn't take effect.

Other wildlife experts say these failures are fairly common.

A dart like that has to stay embedded in a second or two to inject the full dose.

So if it was a glancing hit or the bear's a really thick furred bear, it could mean that barely any got in.

There also, this bear holed up in a factory.

So there's a lot of residents to use rifles because they were surrounded by flammable material.

They have, yes.

In this year up until March, there's actually been a record 13 people killed in Japan.

And there's been another 238 serious attacks.