Japan captures 100kg wild bear after days-long hunt near Tokyo

Japan recorded 238 bear attack victims in fiscal 2025, including 13 deaths; recent incidents in Fukushima left at least four people injured.

In Utsunomiya, a city of half a million people north of Tokyo, a hundred-kilogram black bear wandered into streets where no bear had ever been recorded — and in doing so, made visible a slow-moving collision between a hungry wilderness and a shrinking human frontier. Schools closed, police mobilized, and helicopters circled overhead, not out of panic, but out of the sober recognition that Japan's record 238 bear attack victims in a single fiscal year have transformed what was once an anomaly into a pattern. The bear was captured, but the deeper question — how a society adapts when the boundary

Japan captures 100kg wild bear after days-long hunt near Tokyo

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