the Eurasian brown bear and the Ussuri brown bear. The most common of these species is the Eurasian bear, which is found throughout the country, spanning from the western borders near Europe to ...

The bear was put to sleep before it was killed ... Hokkaido is excluded from this count, but it is theorized to have just under 12,000 Ussuri brown bears alone, whose population has more than ...

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