Police said they received a total of 17 calls about brown bear sightings in Hokkaido between January and February from 2016 to 2021. As of Feb. 15 this year, there had been three sightings.

OBIRA, Hokkaido--The worst brown bear attack on record, one that left seven people dead around 110 years ago, is still talked about in this frontier area of Hokkaido. Winter is no time to relax ...

Masato Fukuda was lightly injured in his encounter with the bears on Thursday morning in Nayoro city, on the northern island of Hokkaido ... fended off a charging brown bear while he was fishing ...

A Hokkaido bear hunter told Short that bears "tend to ... permits to hunters to operate in mountain areas in the spring. Brown bears had come under protection in the past after widespread hunting ...

Bear attacks in Japan are on the rise ... scarce in their natural habitat. Officials in Hokkaido say the estimated number of Ussuri brown bears in the prefecture has reached 11,700 and is on ...