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2. Bear attacks are rising in Japan. Aging hunters are on the ...

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   A record 219 people were victims of bear attacks, six of them fatal, in the 12 months through March 2024, while more than 9,000 black and brown bears were trapped and culled over that period ...

3. 3 bears are captured after sneaking into a tatami factory as ...

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   Three bears that snuck into a tatami mat factory in northern Japan and were holed up inside for nearly a day have been captured and killed, according to town officials and media reports. A ...

4. Japanese black bear - Wikipedia

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   Like other bears, cannibalism occurs, as has been demonstrated when bone fragments and claws of a cub were found inside the stomach of a male black bear. They have also been documented consuming invasive species such as nutria. Japanese beech mast (seeds) are one of the staple foods for the Japanese black bear, particularly in eastern Japan. [6]

5. Asian black bear - Wikipedia

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   Asian black bears feature very little in lowland Japanese folklore, but are prominent in upland Japan, a fact thought to reflect the bear's greater economic value in upland areas. According to the local folklore in Kituarahara-gun in Niigata , the Asian black bear received its white mark after being given a silk-wrapped amulet by yama no kami ...

6. List of individual bears - Wikipedia

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   Kesagake was an Ussuri brown bear who in December 1915 killed seven people in Sankebetsu, in the worst bear attack in Japanese history. MacFarlane's Bear, an abnormal-looking grizzly bear killed by Inuit hunters in 1864 and initially believed to represent a new species. Later examination determined it to be a grizzly bear.

7. Wildlife of Japan - Wikipedia

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   The Japanese taimen (Hucho perryi) is the largest fish to enter freshwater in Japan and may reach sizes of up to 2 meters in length. The Japanese taimen is a critically endangered species including the Japanese populations which are restricted to the rivers and surrounding ocean of Hokkaido. Also present is the Japanese dace (Tribolodon ...

8. Ussuri brown bear - Wikipedia

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   Ussuri Brown Bear in Hokkaido. It is very similar to the Kamchatka brown bear, though it has a more-elongated skull, a less-elevated forehead, somewhat-longer nasal bones and less-separated zygomatic arches, and is somewhat darker in color, with some individuals being completely black, which once led to the now-refuted speculation that black individuals were hybrids of brown bears and Asian ...

9. Moritake Kimura - Wikipedia

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   Moritake Kimura was born in February 25, 1920, in Sapporo, Hokkaido. [2] His father, who was from Aomori Prefecture and worked as a forestry official in the Tōhoku region and Hokkaido, and maternal uncle told him about the Sankebetsu brown bear incident, which caused the most damage in Japanese history, when he was a child, and it left a strong impression on him.