SUNAGAWA, Hokkaido--A gunshot rang out on a recent morning in a meadow in northern Japan. The brown bear slumped in the cage, watched by a handful of city officials and hunters. The bear had been ...
[2] There have been multiple sightings of a brown bear, estimated to be around two ... confrontation between animals and human settlers in Japanese history. [4] Concerns that another powerful ...
a popular destination in Minami Ward among sightseers in Sapporo as well as visitors from other parts of Japan and overseas. A sign warning of “a brown bear sighting near the entrance to a ...
shows beyond a doubt that the bones are from an ancient brown bear, Suwa said in an email. He added that the bones of bears were rarely found in archaeological sites in Japan from this time ...
Bear attacks in Japan are on the rise ... Officials in Hokkaido say the estimated number of Ussuri brown bears in the prefecture has reached 11,700 and is on the rise. Experts say the population ...
A pair of bears picked the wrong person to mess with Thursday in Japan when they approached a 50-year-old karate practitioner only to be kicked away, police and media said, marking the latest in a ...
On the remote Japanese island of Hokkaido, salmon is abundant, attracting brown bears and fishermen alike. BBC Click explores an Arctic vault that stores digital artefacts from across the globe.
NAGOYA, JAPAN—The Mainichi reports that the Middle ... The study suggests that the fossils likely came from a brown bear. “As bear bones more than 20,000 years old, they are also of great ...
A study has found that what scientists had thought were the oldest human fossils found in Japan are the bones of a brown bear. Once known as the Ushikawa man, the fossils were found in the city of ...