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22 bear incidents recorded · Last sighted 3 months ago

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Yamamoto Town in Miyagi Prefecture prepared 777 bear-deterrent bells at a cost of about ¥600,000 and held a presentation ceremony at Yamashita Elementary School on February 26 to give them to all elementary and junior high students. The town decided to distribute the bells after a roughly 1-meter bear was captured in December in a forested area of the Ohira district using a box trap; this is believed to be the town's first captured bear.

Yamashita Elementary School (Yamamoto Town), Miyagi

3 months ago
Kakuda, Miyagi
Official

1/19/2026

Kakuda, Miyagi

5 months ago
Yamamoto Kodaira, Miyagi
Official

1/1/2026

Yamamoto Kodaira, Miyagi

5 months ago
Ohira, Yamamoto Town, Miyagi
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Around 07:00 on December 16, in a forested area of Ohira, Yamamoto Town, Miyagi Prefecture, a bear about 1 meter long was caught in a boar trap set by a private individual; a hunters' association commissioned by the town dispatched and killed the bear on site. No damage from the bear has been confirmed; several sightings had been reported in the area earlier this year.

Ohira, Yamamoto Town, Miyagi

6 months ago
Yamamoto Town, Miyagi
News

At around 06:50 on December 16, 2025, a 73-year-old man found a female bear (about 1 meter long) caught in a box trap for wild boar in a forested area of Ohiradate-no-uchi, Yamamoto Town. The town's wildlife damage control team responded and euthanized the bear after it began to struggle and damage the trap, creating a danger to personnel.

Yamamoto Town, Miyagi

6 months ago
Official

December 16

Yamamoto Odaira, Miyagi

6 months ago
Yamamoto Town, Miyagi
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In December 2025, the town of Yamamoto captured a single bear in a mountain forest, the town's first such capture. In response, the town distributed about 780 bear bells to all elementary and junior high students and incoming pupils, handing them over at Yamashita Elementary School.

Yamamoto Town, Miyagi

6 months ago
Ohira District, Yamamoto Town, Miyagi
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In December 2025, a single bear about 1 meter long was caught in a box trap set for boars in the mountain forest of the Ohira District in Yamamoto Town, and the town captured it. This is thought to be the first bear capture in the town.

Ohira District, Yamamoto Town, Miyagi

6 months ago

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