Sales of the spray have skyrocketed.While Araki was at a local outdoor store buying cans of bear repellent, almost 100 schools, including Wind and Green Kindergarten where he works, closed as a multi-day hunt for the bear got underway."As one bear has been sighted in this area, we recognise that it's possible two or three might appear in the future," he says, standing in a large outdoor playground in the middle of the oval-shaped kindergarten."Our kindergarten is taking a proactive approach to preparing for such situations."The bear terrorising Utsunomiya was eventually caught after multiple sightings across the city, including one just kilometres from Wind and Green Kindergarten.News cameras were filming from the sky and the ground as the bear was tranquillised and loaded into the back of a truck.The dramatic few days speak to a broader issue in Japan: what to do with "urban bears", as they have been dubbed.Bears encroaching on towns and cities have become a big problem in Japan.Bears are most prolific in the northern half of Japan He said the number of bears killed in Japan each year varied significantly, based on whether they came into cities looking for food or not, because they could be so hard to hunt in the wild.He argues culling should be more targeted."For instance, they might say, 'This place is really dangerous, so let's allocate a bit more funding for culling here.'"But there has been "absolutely no discussion of that".At a rifle range outside Utsunomiya, a special training day is being held for local hunters, to offer information and advice about hunting bears