Asian black bear
Five black bear populations, occurring in Kyushu, Shikoku, West-Chugoku, East-Chugoku and Kii areas, were listed as endangered by the Environmental Agency in the Japanese Red Data Book in 1991. Small isolated populations in the Tanzawa and Shimokita areas of mainland Honshū were listed as endangered in 1995. Beyond recognising these populations as endangered, there is still a lack of efficient conservation methods for Japanese black bears.
Asian black bear
In response to a chapter on black bears written by Robert Armitage Sterndale in his "Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon" on how black bears were no more dangerous than other animals in India, a reader responded with a letter to "The Asian" on May 11, 1880: