SAPPORO--A record 1,804 “higuma” brown bears were captured or hunted in Hokkaido in fiscal 2023, prefectural authorities said. The figure was about 1.9 times that of the previous fiscal year.

Bear attacks in Japan are on the rise, with the number of incidents reaching a record high for the period ... say the estimated number of Ussuri brown bears in the prefecture has reached 11,700 ...

which saw 100,000 bears flying onto the ice rink, breaking their previous world record of 74,599 last year. In a video shared on Instagram by the Hershey, Pa. team, numerous stuffed animals were ...

With bear attacks on humans at a record level, the Environment Ministry ... subsidies for culling and research purposes. “Higuma” brown bears and “tsukinowaguma” Asiatic black bears ...