(くま)

bear

(まち)

town

(でる)

to come out; to occur

(あき)

autumn; fall

(とくに)

especially / particularly

(ちゅうい)

caution, warning

(ひつよう)

necessary / needed

(やま)

mountain

(ちかく)

nearby

(みつかる)

to be found

(ふえる)

to increase; to grow

(ふゆ)

winter

(たくさん)

a lot / many

(たべる)

to eat

(どんぐり)

acorn

(など)

et cetera, and so on

(たべもの)

food

(すくない)

few, scarce

(とし)

year

(さがす)

to search for; to look for

(ひと)

person / people

(すむ)

to live; to reside

(ばしょ)

place

(くる)

to come

(とうほくちほう)

Tohoku region

(はたけ)

Farm field; cultivated field

(いえ)

house

(あう)

to meet

(けが)

injury

(し)

city

(ぼうさいむせん)

disaster prevention radio

(メール)

email

(じゅうみん)

resident

(じょうほう)

information

(しらせる)

to inform / notify

(せんもんか)

expert, specialist

(はいる)

to enter, be contained in

(すず)

bell

(らじお)

radio

(おと)

sound

(もの)

thing

(もつ)

to have; to hold

(よびかける)

to call out; to appeal

(また)

again

(そと)

outside

(なまごみ)

kitchen waste; food scraps

(くだもの)

fruit

(おく)

to place, put

(たいせつ)

important

come toward (action approaching)

Indicates motion toward the speaker or a location. Here it describes rocks flying toward people.

when it becomes / whenever

Shows a repeated condition followed by an action. 'When it becomes the 11th of each month', the mother delivers a bento.

nominalizer (the act of ~)

Turns verbs into nouns — changing one's awareness (意識を変えること), not over-buying (買いすぎないこと), and using leftovers well (使うこと).

is doing, has been doing (ongoing state/action)

Expresses a continuing action or resulting state. Formed with て-form + いる. Can describe an action in progress or a state resulting from a past change.

before ~

Indicates doing something before another action. Used to advise checking the store before ordering.

until / as far as

Indicates an end point in space or time. Here it expresses how far the balls flew.

there are times when ~

Indicates that something sometimes happens.

~ and ~ (non-exhaustive list)

や connects nouns in a non-exhaustive list, implying there are other items not mentioned.

when ~

Indicates the time when something happened — when he was in junior high school.

(urging) to do

Used in 準備をするよう呼びかけています — urging people to prepare for evacuation.

in the state of ～

Describes starting an engine while water is still inside the car — without changing that state.

to say that ~ (quotation)

と話しています reports what a company representative said.

クマが町に出てくる　秋は特に注意が必要

Bears coming into towns: extra caution needed in autumn

秋になると、山の近くの町でクマが見つかることが増えています。

In autumn, bears are being found more and more often in towns near the mountains.

クマは冬の前にたくさん食べる必要があります。

Bears need to eat a lot before winter.

山にどんぐりなどの食べ物が少ない年は、食べ物を探して人が住んでいる場所まで来ることがあります。

In years when there is little food such as acorns in the mountains, bears sometimes come all the way to places where people live, looking for food.

東北地方などでは、畑や家の近くでクマに会って、けがをした人もいます。

In the Tohoku region and elsewhere, some people have been injured after running into bears near fields and homes.

市や町は、防災無線やメールで住民に情報を知らせています。

Cities and towns are informing residents through disaster-prevention radio and email.

専門家は、山に入るときは鈴やラジオなど音が出るものを持つように呼びかけています。

Experts are urging people to carry something that makes noise, such as a bell or a radio, when they go into the mountains.

また、家の外に生ごみや果物を置いたままにしないことも大切だと話しています。

They also say it is important not to leave food waste or fruit outside the house.