Since April, more than 100 people have been injured and at least 12 killed in bear attacks across Japan.
The new measures will also apply to visitors of the Maldives.
Metro’s foreign correspondent Gergana Krasteva reports from Lebanon My taxi driver keeps one eye on the road and the other on the rear-view mirror,as if expecting smoke to rise ahead of us.
It took just seven minutes for the 'highly organised commando unit' to make off with the items.