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Sakurayama Kouen

桜山公園

93 bear incidents recorded · Last sighted 1 month ago

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Kazuno, Akita
Official

Fallow field / body length 70 cm / 20 m from a house: One small bear was seen wandering in a fallow field from inside a residence. Distance to the witness: 20 m. The bear left the area. Direction of departure unknown.

Kazuno, Akita

1 month ago
Fallow paddy field in Fukushikawa, Hanawa, Kazuno City, Akita
News

At around 08:30 on the 31st, a woman in her 60s at home spotted one bear about 70 cm long in a fallow paddy field in Fukushikawa, Hanawa, Kazuno City, Akita Prefecture. The bear was about 20 meters from the nearest house; police notified related agencies and carried out patrol-car warnings in the area.

Fallow paddy field in Fukushikawa, Hanawa, Kazuno City, Akita

1 month ago
Kazuno, Akita
Official

A witness walking a dog found tracks of what appears to be an adult bear. The tracks were moving from east to west.

Kazuno, Akita

6 months ago
Kazuno, Akita
Official

While walking, saw a bear about 80 cm long moving from the forest toward the Welfare Council area; direction of movement unknown.

Kazuno, Akita

6 months ago
Hanawa, Kazuno City, Akita
News

On November 16 at around 15:30, an elderly woman's body was found in a rice field in Hanawa, Kazuno City; she had lacerations to the head and right hand and bite-like wounds on both legs, and police are investigating a possible bear attack. Earlier that day a male bear about 80 cm long entered the Aeon Noshiro store in Noshiro City, remained for about two and a half hours, was sedated by prefectural staff and euthanized, and no customers or employees were injured.

Hanawa, Kazuno City, Akita

6 months ago
Hanawa, Kazuno City, Akita
News

On November 16 a body of a woman in her 70s was found in a rice field in Hanawa, Kazuno City, Akita Prefecture. An autopsy determined the cause of death was hypothermia; the body had scratches likely from small animals, and no bear fur or footprints were found at the scene.

Hanawa, Kazuno City, Akita

6 months ago
News

On the morning of November 11, 2025, an man in his 80s found about 360 apples ruined in an orchard in Hanawa, Kazuno City (Yorikidō). Bear scat was found in the orchard; the damage is believed to have occurred between around 16:30 on the 10th and around 06:30 on the 11th, and the orchard is about 60 meters from the nearest house.

Hanawa, Kazuno City, Akita

6 months ago
Official

On the railway tracks; length about 0.8 m; about 10 m to a house. A station employee approaching the tracks for work found a bear on the tracks. The bear headed north. The witness was about 1 m away.

Kazuno Osarizawa, Akita

6 months ago

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