Location
Description
At around 10:25 on May 20, 2026, a woman in her 70s encountered a bear about 1 meter long in a bamboo grove behind her home in Furukawa Shinhori, Osaki City, Miyagi. She waved a saw she was carrying and drove the bear off but fell and suffered a fractured bone in her lower back; the bear fled west.
Note: Official sources provide information in Japanese only. This description has been machine translated for your convenience.
Summary
On the morning of May 20, a woman in her 70s foraging for bamboo shoots in Furukawa Shinhori, Osaki City, came face-to-face with a bear. She managed to scare it off by swinging a saw, but fell and fractured a bone in her lower back; sightings were reported nearby afterward.
Bear Type
Black Bear
Number of Bears
1
Provider Type
News
Date & Time
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 01:25 AM
Address
Osaki 古川新堀, Miyagi
Coordinates
38.577365, 140.893631
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