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Our ongoing coverage of the Japanese bear attack crisis is coming full circle this week with the news that a hut cuisine, French restaurant in the city of Sapporo, now has bear meat on the menu.

Chef Kiyoshi Fujimoto has been cooperating directly with professional hunters in the town of

Ville to make use of the bears they're culling there in his restaurant, Le Cain Kios, I think, is how it's

pronounced. Fujimoto didn't want those bears to go to waste, telling the Manichi Shimbun newspaper,

quote, I want customers to enjoy the meal these bears lost their

lives for. And I have to say, it sounds like quite a meal. For 20,000 yen, or about 135 bucks,

you can get five courses, including roasted bear meat and brazed bear belly in a bear broth

consummate. Looking at the photos on the restaurant's website, it looks like it would be about 20,000

well spent.

There's definitely quite a bit of bear meat available these days with the recent military

assisted push to cull them.

Although we don't yet have final numbers for total bears trapped or shot in Japan in 2025,

the figure is likely to blow 2004 out of the water.

Just in Hokkaido, the single prefecture where BA and Sapporo are located,

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