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Toyohira Yama

豊平山

10 bear incidents recorded · Last sighted 1 month ago

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Sunagawa オアシス, Hokkaido
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Around 11:20 PM on May 27 in the residential-area city road of Nishi 3-jo Minami 9-chome, Sunagawa, a man in his 20s who had returned home by car spotted a bear-like animal about 1.5 meters long walking on the road after getting out in front of his house.

Sunagawa オアシス, Hokkaido

1 month ago
Sunagawa 北吉野町, Hokkaido
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At around 20:00 on May 9, 2026, a man in his 60s driving on Route 115 in Kitayoshino-cho, Sunagawa City, saw a bear about 2 meters long crossing the road from left to right. Police, municipal staff and hunters checking the scene found multiple bear tracks (about 24 cm) heading north and south, and increased vigilance was implemented because a residential area lies about 1 km away. No injuries or damage to the vehicle were reported.

Sunagawa 北吉野町, Hokkaido

2 months ago
Kamisunagawa 字上砂川町, Hokkaido
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Kamisunagawa Town, Hokkaido published higuma (brown bear) sighting information for fiscal 2026. Specific sighting locations are indicated on an attached map (orange = sighting, green = droppings/tracks, black = latest information), and it includes warnings for dawn and dusk and instructions on how to behave if encountering a bear (make noise, avoid entering mountains alone, quietly withdraw, etc.).

Kamisunagawa 字上砂川町, Hokkaido

3 months ago
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On the morning of October 27 in Kamisunagawa Town, Hokkaido, a bear was captured in a box trap. Evidence showed it was the same individual that had stayed on the grounds of Kamisunagawa Junior High School on October 11. While in the trap the bear stripped and devoured deer meat and displayed the habit of hiding food in the ground; hunters had set the trap at the town's request.

Kamisunagawa Junior High School, Hokkaido

8 months ago
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On the morning of October 27, one bear was captured in a box trap in Kamisunagawa Town. The captured bear is thought to have been staying on a junior high school ground, was seen peeling and attempting to eat deer hide, and even in the trap devoured meat while showing a 'soil-mound' foraging behavior.

Kamisunagawa 字上砂川町, Hokkaido

8 months ago
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Brown bear sighting information for the 2025 fiscal year has been reported for Kamisunagawa Town.

Kamisunagawa Town, Hokkaido

8 months ago
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A municipal employee sighted a young bear about 1 meter long on a riverbed; sightings have increased in the city center.

Behind Sunagawa City Hall, Sunagawa, Hokkaido

8 months ago
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A city employee sighted a bear on the riverbed behind Sunagawa City Hall and police responded, but the bear left toward the river; about two weeks earlier a male bear of approximately 200 kg had been captured.

Behind Sunagawa City Hall, Sunagawa, Hokkaido

8 months ago

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