Posted on 11/10/2023 3:37:31 AM PST by marktwain
On the morning of October 31, on the Japanese Island of Hokkaido, a man with a knife fought off a brown bear as it attacked his two companions. It seems likely the attack was prompted because the bear was defending the food cache it had made of the body of a hiker it had killed on October 29. From mainichi.jp:
SAPPORO — A man fought off a brown bear using a knife after he and two others were attacked by the animal while climbing Mount Daisengen in a Hokkaido town on the morning of Oct. 31.
Two men in their 40s suffered minor injuries including scratches on their sides and necks, as well as bites on the legs inflicted by the 1.7-meter-tall bear, but all three descended the mountain under their own power.
According to the Hokkaido Prefectural Government’s brown bear countermeasures office, the three men all reside in Hokkaido. The last person walking in a single file line was attacked by the animal at around 9:30 a.m. — some 2 1/2 hours after the three left the trailhead. Another person drove off the bear but two sustained injuries.
When the authorities investigated the site of the attack on the three hikers, they were surprised to find two bodies. They found a brown bear carcass near by, and the body of Kanato Yanaike, a 22-year-old man. From mainchi.jp:
Hokkaido Prefectural Police’s Matsumae Police Station announced on Nov. 4 that DNA analysis confirmed the body is of Kanato Yanaike, 22, who had gone missing while on a mountain climbing trip. The cause of death was hemorrhagic shock. A brown bear carcass was found near the body, and the police are investigating on the assumption that he was attacked by the bear.
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So far in the USA we have better means to accomplish the end.
For animal defense
Bigger knifes are better then small knifes Swords are better then big knifes. Spears are better then swords.
Firearms are better then all above.
Being eaten by a bear in Japan. Seems kind of incongruous.
Perhaps the people of Japan shall not look at a bear quite the same way.
Japan had 177 people attacked by bears this year. It appears to be many more people are attacked by a bears in Japan than are attacked by bears in the USA.
I didn’t even realize that Japan had bears.
Interesting how the attack is partially blamed on the depopulation of the villages as the general population declines, as opposed to here in the states where increasing pops are blamed for encroachment and forced contact with bears as reasons for increased attacks.
Darned if ya do and darned if ya don’t.
There may be as many as 10,000 brown bears on Hokkaido. That is a lot of bears in a relatively small space.
Maybe we can negotiate, create a two-state solution.
Local police believe that Kanato Yanaike attempted to grin the bear to death but lost his concentration.
Cute, cuddly, and expensive. The other one’s a stuffed bear.
Or a heavy club to beat them off with.
Someone on Hokkaido ought to make that guy an honorary black belt, if he isn’t a real one already.
Yet the Japanese make such an effort to emphasize the mysterious and surely paranormal likelihood of any mountain hiker that goes missing.
Ive seen more than one show and read a number of articles about the missing but no one ever mentions bears in Japan outside of ancient Ainu bear cult references as though the bears disappeared along with oni and sea dragons.
I started looking, and was surprised I did not find any central database for people killed by bears in Japan. From a few news articles, the number of people killed by bears in Japan sometimes surpasses the number killed by bears in North America.
Bear meat tastes quite good.
“I didn’t even realize that Japan had bears.”
And certainly not in such large numbers or with such ferocity.
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