“Nuisance” bears are hunted and killed and their body parts sold. They are persecuted by the timber industry as they kill valuable trees by gnawing off the bark to get at the sapwood beneath. Unable to return home, Yasutaro- stayed in Onishika, now Obiracho-. A campaign organized by a group called the Bear and Forest Association aimed to collect acorns from parks in the cities to help feed the bears. When autumn food is in short supply some bears will remain active through much of the winter. Experts say a meagre supply of acorns and other nuts last autumn drove an unusually large number of Japan's black bears into populated areas to forage for food. Their diet changes with season. [Ibid]
See China, Health, Chinese Medicine. Two deaths from bear attacks were recorded in both 1985 and 2004. As expected, the bear appeared at the front door. In the summer and autumn of 2004 there was an unusually high number of bear attacks. The current situation is basically an open invitation to bears to come into areas where people live," Aoi said. "And then the scorching weather in summer made the acorns fall from the trees before they had grown to full size." A female bear and her cubs were caught. [Source: Yomiuri Shimbun, October 24, 2010]. While many such trial-and-error efforts are continuing across the nation, none have been successful in totally preventing bears from approaching areas where humans live.” An official of the local government in Kyoto Prefecture said: "We're dealing with wild animals. Directed by John Berry. A 77-year-old woman and a 76-year-old woman suffered facial scratched. Thinking of the future, the team decided to exterminate the bear even if they had to mobilize every possible resource. If such a bear was shot, the huntsman would offer it to yama no kami, and give up hunting from that time on. Believing that the bear had killed everyone inside, some of the guardsmen proposed setting the house on fire. Japan’s bears are killers, claiming a handful of lives most years. The bear had cached the body of Mayu in the snow in an attempt to preserve it, as well as to hide it from scavengers. After the attack, most of the villagers of Rokusen sawa soon left, and the town rapidly transformed into a ghost town. In November 2008, a bear attacked a woman at a vacation home in Karuizawamachi, Nagano Prefecture, leaving her with minor back injuries. The problem started when the animals began raiding cow barns in search of food. In May and June four people were killed by Asian black bears in Akita prefecture while picking bamboo shoots, and in August a female safari park worker in Gunma prefecture was killed when an Asian black bear climbed into her car and attacked her. "Bears need to stock up on food before they hibernate in the winter, which is one of the main reasons why so many have been spotted in towns and villages," Makoto Asano of the Japan Bear Network told the Guardian. In two days, six people had lost their lives, one of them pregnant. The youngest bear bit the man on the leg, inflicting light injuries, before all three ran into the woods. Japan Today reported: “Tomohiro Tamura, 34, who had been in charge of bears for three and a half years at the zoo, was pronounced dead at a hospital from blood loss, the police said. Photograph: Greg Baker/AP. Some eat Pacific salmon returning to the rivers. I have seen up to six or seven enza in a single oak grove...Asian black bears are also said to build “basking couches.” These elevated, oval-shaped beds constructed of twigs and branches probably allow the bears to conserve body hear by getting off the ground during wet and cold ls spells. It was Yamamoto and Ikeda Kamejiro-, a guide, who immediately set out after the bear. The Kyushu subspecies is probably already extinct. Rural people began wearing bells and other noisemakers. Conservationists warned today that Japan's population of Asiatic black bears faces extinction following a record number of killings of bears that strayed into towns and villages in search of food. In September 2001, the Mainichi Shimbun reported from Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture: “Four people, three of them elderly, were injured after a berserk black bear attacked them here Monday before it disappeared back into the woods. Both males and females are deep black in color except for a white or cream crescent-shaped mark on their chest, which gives them the common name of “moon bear.” The size and shape of the crescent varies greatly and may even be completely absent. … The guardsmen divided into two groups: one, consisting of ten men, stood guard at the door while the other group went to the back of the house. This constitutes 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. "The policy must be not to kill the bears but to improve their natural habitat and encourage them to return deeper into the mountains," he said. Prayers were said to the fire, house and mountain gods. It was decided that the brown bear would most probably try to retrieve the bodies of those it had killed but there were no remains in the Miyoke family house. On December 9, 1915, at 10:30 a.m., the giant brown bear turned up at the home of the O-ta family. ", An Asiatic black bear. Mr Asano believes that as long as the destruction of the bears' deciduous mountain forest habitat also continues, humans will have to get used to having them as close neighbours. There have been 86 attacks and 33 deaths from bears since 1962 when the … Asian black bears are known for having short tempers. In fact, an Ishikawa prefectural government analysis of the stomach contents of 141 bears captured since September 2004 found 55 had eaten persimmons. Iwate University Prof. Toshiki Aoi, a researcher of wild animal controls, told the Yomiuri Shimbun bears are no longer afraid of people. According to contemporary descriptions the scene resembled a slaughterhouse, with blood puddled on the farmhouse floor. The Bear (熊) is a non-recurring character in Hajime no Ippo. If that attitude persists then extinction can't be too far away. She too was attacked, killed, and eaten. Miyoke Yasutaro- had heard that a man named Yamamoto Heikichi was an expert bear hunter, and so paid a visit to his house. The bear was taken from the bear house and killed with arrows and by strangling it between logs. Conducted in the spring, it was essentially a funeral ritual for the most important Ainu deity and was intended to give the bear and mountain god spirit a proper send off before it returned to the mountains. In the process, the trip sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps for the boys. The bear was then skinned and dressed and placed before an altar hung with treasures and then placed through a sacred window. 90 to 152 brown bears are thought to dwell in the West Ishikari Region and from 84 to 135 in the Teshio-Mashike mountains. In the Ainu Museum in Shiraoi, south of Sapporo, a cute cartoon bear in a red T-shirt adorns a sign advertising bear treats for ¥ 100. Yamamoto decided to track the bear with a team of two, as they would be quicker than a larger team. "Bears born in these years have now become very active, partly because acorns are in short supply," Maita said. In September 2006, a male middle school student in Otrimura, Nagano Prefecture was seriously injured in an attack by a bear on his way to school. In recent years bears have increased in numbers, expanded their range and lost their fear of people and have increasingly come in contact with them. Japanese black bears are divided into seven recognized subspecies. [Source: Wikipedia], Yamamoto was familiar with Kesagake's behaviour and successfully tracked him down. As Morikawa lay in terror, the bear nipped her knee before fleeing. The enraged animal nevertheless retreated, and the men escaped injury. A small time hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps. For example, maybe they push a fence over by using their hip, so the thick fur protects it from electric shock," he told the Yomiuri Shimbun. The Ainu continue to worship and revere bears but they no longer ritually kill them. As the animal advanced she pled for her life and that of her unborn child, but it was in vain. The corps of guardsmen who had tracked the bear downriver realized that they were not, in fact, on its trail. In 2003, a man was badly mauled in the face by a bear in the Okayama area. Among some Ainus a male bear was killed and its penis, head and other body parts were taken to a sacred place on the mountains. Similar beliefs were held in Nagano, where the completely black bears were termed nekoguma or cat-bear. [Ibid], That night, a sniper at the bridge thought he saw something in the shadows of the tree stumps on the opposite shore. The team dropped everything and scattered, but the bear had singled out one of the graduate students who had fallen through the snow crust while trying to escape. She suffered serious injuries in her head. When they become sufficiently fattened up they seek a cozy den in a cave, rock shelter, partially rotted log or the hollow of an old tree. Brown bears are threatened by loss of habitat to farming and logging and human control of salmon rivers. Between April and September 2010, 82 bear attacks with 84 victims were reported in Japan. Rehoming four bears from Japan to a rehabilitation facility had never been done before and we did not want to put the bears under unnecessary stress to travel across the world if there was a suitable home in Japan they could go to. There are two species of bear found in Japan: the Asiatic black bear and Ezo brown bear. In Hyogo Prefecture black bears have been trained to fear humans. Bears that were ritually killed and eaten were bears captured as cubs that were usually raised for about two years in the local community. The ceremony ended when the head of the bear was placed on the altar and arrows are fired to the east so its spirit could return to the mountains. They are the same as Asiatic black bears found in China, India, Southeast Asia and Russia. Two others were seriously injured. "If you can't escape, squat down and curl up into a ball," Shiraishi said. As implied in Breaking Training, the Bears had to defeat the Houston Toros for a shot at the Japanese champs. He swore an oath to kill ten bears for every victim of the attack. Forests in mountainous areas were once maintained by forestry workers, but this work has been increasingly neglected in recent years as people drift away from these areas. “In Kudoyamacho, Wakayama Prefecture, on the same day, a bear escaped from an animal trap in a field. "With fewer hunters around, bears are no longer afraid to approach people. "Acorns aren't the only food bears eat," he said. Rehoming four bears from Japan to a rehabilitation facility had never been done before, and in total, it took more than ten organisations to make this special project possible. In mid 2000s, a hunter had to be rescued after getting stuck in the cave of a hibernating bear for 24 hours in mountains in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture. He told the Yomiuri Shimbun "There are about 300 members who can work in the prefecture, and they've been dispatched almost every day since late August. She heard a rumbling noise outside, but before she could investigate, the bear broke through a window and entered the house. On November 20, 1915, the bear reappeared. By Stuart Winter . Black bears are found throughout Honshu and Shikoku. Ezo brown bears live in Hokkaido. A study by the Environmental Ministry in 1991 estimated the number to be between 8,400 and 12,600. The number of bears trapped or killed because they were deemed as pests was less than 1,000. Mikio was bitten on the head and killed. In some places they build feeding platforms---high up in beech and oak trees and made by bending and snapping branches---that are used to feed on nuts and acorns. The beare attacked the woman after jumping out of thicket of bushes and is believed to have been a cub that had just left his mother. Unfortunately, this damages and can even kill the trees, having a negative impact on the timber industry. But if a bear is agitated, taking more defensive measures could be required. Abe Mayu, the farmer's wife, and Hasumi Mikio, a baby being taken care of by Mayu, were at the house. PUBLISH Given that there were now 60 armed men, it was decided that they should hunt in the surrounding mountains. Between April and November last year 4,251 black bears - between 30 and 50% of the total population - were killed because they were considered a threat to human safety and crops, the environment ministry said. For a long time brown bears were viewed as pests in Japan. She was a black bear living in the mountainous area around Pension Yoshio in Niigata that fought Takamura Mamoru. The Japanese government formally forbade the Ainu bear festival in the early 1960s. At dawn on in mid-November in 1915, an Ussuri brown bear appeared at the Ikeda family's house in Sankebetsu Rokusen-sawa, about 30 kilometers inland from the west coast of Hokkaido-. When the bear reappeared on November 30, they shot it but failed to kill it. By using a radio locator to pinpoint the exact location if the bear, we calculated that it was asleep some 10 feet or so from the entrance at the high end of the log...As Maita’s team cautiously approached th den entrance with their equipment, a very large (485 pound, 225 kilogram) male Asian black bear exploded from the entrance in attack. They are particularly fond of persimmon and often raid crops in places where there is thick bush for them to hide and the population is made up primarily of relatively non-threatening elderly people. Ussuri brown bears are occasionally preyed on by Siberian tigers, and constitute about 1% ... the small size and isolation of the western Ishikari subpopulation has warranted its listing as an endangered species in Japan’s Red Data Book. In 2004 some footpaths were closed because of worries about bear attacks and elevated walkways were built to protect tourist in the future. The ceremony was presided over by the community leader. Since then the sighting of the bears has increased---from 41 in 1993 to 489 in 2003---and there has been more potentially dangerous encounters. [Source: Hiromasa Takeda and Takahiro Komazaki, Yomiuri Shimbun, October 24, 2010], Encounters between bears and humans are often just as scary for the bears as the people. In Japan, it is also known as tsukinowaguma which means moon circle bear. The bear had damaged at least eight houses, but so far no one could find it. The bear suddenly rushed at the old woman, who vainly tried to flee. They are excellent diggers, tree climbers and swimmers. Because they are no longer hunted brown bears don’t fear people like they used to. His first shot hit the bear's heart and the second shot his head. In October 2010, in Kitaakita, Akita Prefecture, a 63-year-old man gathering mushrooms ran into three bears, apparently a family. Terry Domico wrote in “Bears of the World”: “Resembling crows’ nest, the structures are common in cherry, beech, oak and dogwood trees. They have traditionally been most visible between May and August when they descend from the mountains in search of food like sprouts and skunk cabbage. Image Sources: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Animal Trials 6) Ray Kinnane 7) 8) Japan-Animals blog 9) Wikipedia 10) Hubpages 11) Akita Prefecture site. "I don't think there are any bears left in these mountains.". [Ibid]. The man was collecting wild plants when he was fatally attacked. Most of the meat they eat comes from carcasses although they have been observed hunting small deer and other animals. By some estimates there are around 3,000 brown bears in Japan, all of them in Hokkaido. Bears are found on the continents of North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Hunters tested the potency of the poison by placing a tiny bit on their tongue or between their fingers. [Ibid], December 11th and 12th of the Sankebetsu Brown Bear Incident, On December 11, Miyoke Yasutaro- and Saito- Ishigoro- returned to Sankebetsu. Amid the general confusion and risk of crossfire, the bear escaped into the night. These are problems that bears face more elsewhere in Asia than in Japan. "In the past villagers grew crops on nearby foothills, but now their number has dwindled and those areas have become the bears' territory," he said. Bears are timid by nature, and it's said that they originally did not attack humans. Sometimes bear cubs were caught and nursed by women. The bears live on three Japanese islands: Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. Next to be targeted was Take, Saito- Ishigoro-'s pregnant wife. ALASKA BEARS: Stirred and Shaken is a collection of 24 stories describing Jake’s personal experience hunting and guiding for all the species of bears in Alaska. This has encouraged bears to move nearer to where people live. Guns and volunteers for the team were gathered from nearby towns, and after getting permission from "Teishitsu Rinya kyoku" (the Imperial Forestry Agency", now "Rin'ya cho-"), the sniper team went to Sankebetsu that evening. At the Ueno Zoo a bear has been artificially-induced to hibernate by replicating the conditions in the bear’s home territory. This group entered the forest and had advanced no more than 150 meters when it met the brown bear. Only fairly recently have they been embraced by animal lovers and conservationists. After killing the bear, the matagi would pray for the bear's soul. Without guns the Ainu killed bears used bamboo arrows poisoned with a preparation made from the roots of a small purple-flowered plant called are Aconitum yesoense . In 2006, three people were killed by black bears and 136 were injured. The bear slammed into her back, knocking her to the ground. The Bad News Bears are back for their third outing, following the enormously successful The Bad News Bears and The Bad News Bears In Breaking Training. The police said the two victims were believed to be Tachi Tatehana, 69, and Take Tatehana, 75, both of the Hachimantai-Sakabitai district of Kazuno. In population-dense Japan bears are culled so that the human population, who walk around with bells on their ankles to avoid startling bears into attack, do not get overrun. Today, watered-down versions of the festivals are sometimes performed for tourists. [Source: AP, April 20, 2012], The Yomiuri Shimbun reported: “Rescue workers witnessed a bear climbing over a concrete wall to escape from an open-air play area at the Hachimantai Bear Farm in Kazuno, Akita Prefecture, where two female employees were killed by brown bears, sources said. Bear hunts in Japan are often termed kuma taiji, meaning "bear conquest". Farmers that suffered the most were given bear detecting devices and bear repellants that produced loud noises to scare the bears away. [Ibid], O-kawa Haruyoshi, who was seven years old and the son of the Sankebetsu village mayor at the time of the incident, grew up to become an excellent bear hunter. He also installed electric fences, but even that has failed to stop bears from intruding in his field.” "I'm afraid the bears might have learned how to get around the fences. The Ainu had great reverence for bears, Bears were providers of food, fur and bone for tools. They can be found in the northeastern high snow region and the southwestern low snow region; however, they have been spotted as high as the alpine region more than 3,000 metres (9,800 feet) high. Each year they kill one or two people in Japan and injure 10 to 20. The villagers believed that once the bear had a taste for human flesh, its return to the settlement was assured. Elderly people traveled in groups. The Bears are in a dilemma. Of the 84 people attacked by bears, four---two in Hokkaido, one in Fukushima Prefecture and one in Tottori Prefecture---were killed. Odo recovered from injury and returned to work, but next spring he fell into a river and died. [Ibid], End of the Sankebetsu Brown Bear Incident, The next morning, a team investigated the opposite shore and found a bear's footprint and blood there. The sniper team consisted of six members, which now included Yamamoto Heikichi waited, but the bear stopped and appeared to check the inside of the house then returned to the forest. Mr Asano, an assistant professor at Gifu University, said deforestation and an ageing rural human population were also to blame. In October 2006, hunters in Nagano were asked to voluntarily refrain from hunting black bears out of concern that their numbers might be declining as so many bears had been killed as pests. 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