This article was published in the Autumn 2024 issue of Litterae Populi. The full issue can be found here.Much of bear ecology ...

Police said they received a total of 17 calls about brown bear sightings in Hokkaido between January and February from 2016 to 2021. As of Feb. 15 this year, there had been three sightings.

Brown bears have increasingly been wandering into residential areas in Hokkaido, their only habitat in Japan. And local authorities face a heightened urgency to hire hunters to keep the animals at ...

An NHK survey has found that at least 11 people have been attacked by bears since April this year in the prefectures of Akita, Ishikawa, Iwate, Nara and Hokkaido. While the number of reported ...

Some attacks have been fatal. In May, a fisherman went missing while out on a lake in Hokkaido. A search party found a bear with waders in its mouth and partial human remains nearby. A hunter in ...

Within seconds, the bear arrived at the truck's windshield and hit its wiper. After giving it one strike, the wiper is seen dangling off the window. Hokkaido Police via Storyful Would You Rather ...