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I was standing in the river fishing and, as I was about to get out, I stopped to look at my phone for a moment when something moving caught the corner of my eye — a bear! It was about 1 meter in size. Before I noticed it, the bear was in the river about 20 meters away. When our eyes met, the bear seemed startled and raced out of the river, fleeing into the bushes. After that, the bear appeared to be panicked and was running back and forth on Nagano Bridge (when I told a local I met at the Nakasen roadside station about the bear, they said they had just seen a panicked bear on the bridge).
Note: Official sources provide information in Japanese only. This description has been machine translated for your convenience.
Bear Type
Black Bear
Number of Bears
1
Provider Type
Official
Date & Time
Friday, May 29, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Address
Daisen Nagano, Akita
Coordinates
39.540256, 140.526466
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