TOKYO: Japanese police are investigating another suspected fatal bear attack, a local official told AFP on Tuesday (Jun 30), as the number of such deaths remains unusually high. Bear attacks have been on the rise in Japan in recent years, something scientists attribute to a spike in the animals' population and a declining number of people in rural areas. Authorities in northern Aomori prefecture said on Monday that a man found dead on a mountain that day may have been attacked by a bear. "