Location
Description
Around 5:00 PM, a village official on patrol in a patrol car saw a brown bear about 1.0 m long on the village road Ozawa-ta–Ōbayashi Line; it then moved into a thicket to the east. Also around 5:10 PM, district residents saw what appeared to be the same bear in a field about 100 m from the first sighting; it then moved into the southern forest. The first sighting location was about 20 m from a house, the second about 30 m from a house.
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
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at 05:00 PM
Address
Kamikoani Fukudate, Akita
Coordinates
40.060619, 140.296001
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