日本推出摇滚乐抵御熊的袭击

Can rock’n’roll keep people safe from bear attacks? One Japanese region is hoping so, and has commissioned a cautionary anthem warning residents about the threat of its ursine inhabitants.

摇滚乐能让人们免受熊的袭击吗?一个日本地区希望如此，并委托制作了一首警示歌，警告当地居民警惕熊科动物的威胁。

Bears are common across Japan and regularly spark frantic hunts when they venture into towns, where they have attacked and even killed residents.

熊在日本各地都很常见，当它们冒险进入城镇，攻击甚至杀害居民时，经常引发疯狂的捕猎。

A spike in the number of bear sightings in rural northern Japan has been met with a novel response: the Iwate prefecture government has commissioned a rock song that will be belted out across the region.

近日，日本北部农村地区熊出没事件激增，对此，日本政府采取了一种新颖的应对措施:岩手县政府下令在该地区播放一首摇滚歌曲。

“So you think bear cubs are cute?” the song lyrics begin, as screaming guitars and pounding drums play in the background.

“所以你认为熊宝宝很可爱?”这首歌的歌词是这样开头的，背景是刺耳的吉他声和咚咚的鼓声。

“Discard that naive way of thinking! Nearby that cub is a parent bear, and it’ll suddenly attack you! Roar, roar, roar, roar, roar, roar – it’ll suddenly attack you!”

“抛弃那种天真的想法吧!旁边的幼崽是母熊，它会突然袭击你!吼，吼，吼，吼，吼，吼——它会突然袭击你的!”

The track was written and performed by a pair of local sexagenarian rockers and offers sobering advice such as “never turn your back and run away”, and “trying to play dead doesn’t work”.

这首歌是由一对当地的性感摇滚歌手创作和表演的，歌词还提供了一些发人深省的建议，如“永远不要掉头逃跑”，以及“装死是行不通的”。

Singer Yuuzen Taguchi, 69, said such advice served him well on the one occasion he encountered a bear near a field. “It’s very frightening when one just appears before you,” he told AFP.

69岁的歌手田口遇曾(Yuzen Taguchi)说，有一次他在田野附近遇到一头熊，这样的建议对他很有帮助。他告诉法新社：“当一头熊出现在你面前时，是非常可怕的。”。

“You want to run away, but my grandparents told me years ago that if you ever encounter a bear, don’t turn around and just back away slowly.

“你想逃跑，但我的祖父母几年前告诉我，如果遇到熊，不要掉头慢慢后退。”

“I was taught that rural knowledge that comes from coexisting with bears when I was a kid.”

“当我还是个孩子的时候，我被灌输了与熊共存的农村知识。”

There were more than 3,300 bear sightings in Iwate prefecture in 2020, up from 700 in 2017.

2020年，岩手县出现了3300多起熊类目击事件，高于2017年的700起。

Authorities hope the song, which is playing at local roadside shopping centres until 31 October, will teach people how to stay safe.

这首歌将在当地的路边购物中心播放到10月31日，当局希望这首歌能教会人们如何保持安全。

“It’s said that bears are timid creatures, so I think if one heard the song playing outside it would run away,” Toudou said.

“据说熊是胆小的动物，所以我想如果它们听到外面播放的歌曲，就会跑掉，”Toudou说。

“That’s the power of rock’n’roll.”

“这就是摇滚乐的力量。”