On the 11th, an Asiatic black bear was found in a warehouse in a residential building in Higashiyoshino Village, Nara Prefecture, and was captured in an ``emergency gun hunt,'' which allows the use of hunting rifles at the local government's discretion, and then exterminated. According to a summary by the Ministry of the Environment, this is the first time that an emergency gun hunt has been carried out in the Kinki region.