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Four Climbers Airlifted After Brown Bear Blocks Hokkaido Trail

Officials say the incident highlights a seasonal and structural rise in bear encounters that has prompted expanded monitoring and public-safety steps.

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Lay-Jury Trial Ends as Prosecutors Seek 27 Years for Woman in Hokkaido Teen’s Bridge Death

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Sapporo Euthanizes One Brown Bear as Problem Bears Appear Across Hokkaido and Tōhoku

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Man Arrested After Knife Attack in Chitose Leaves Woman in Cardiac Arrest

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Sapporo Opens Permanent Hall Displaying Original Fossils of Newly Described Whale

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Defendant Denies Causing Asahikawa Teen’s Fall as Police Arrest Teen Recruiter in Tochigi Case

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Hokkaido City Worker Confesses to Dumping Wife’s Body in Asahiyama Zoo Incinerator

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Hokkaido Wildfire Near Nosappu Cape Extinguished After Burning 328 Hectares

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Mt. Rausu to Reopen in July Under New Five-Day Bear Closure Rule

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Japan Confirms H5N1 Outbreak at Hokkaido Poultry Farm, Orders Culling of 190,000 Chickens

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Princess Kiko and Prince Hisahito Join Youth Ski Orienteering in Hokkaido

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Unification Church Ordered Dissolved After Court Details ¥650 Billion in Transfers as Germany Boycotts Paralympics Opening and China Targets 4.5–5% Growth

Hokkaido

Four Climbers Airlifted After Brown Bear Blocks Hokkaido Trail

Lay-Jury Trial Ends as Prosecutors Seek 27 Years for Woman in Hokkaido Teen’s Bridge Death

Sapporo Euthanizes One Brown Bear as Problem Bears Appear Across Hokkaido and Tōhoku

Man Arrested After Knife Attack in Chitose Leaves Woman in Cardiac Arrest

Sapporo Opens Permanent Hall Displaying Original Fossils of Newly Described Whale

Defendant Denies Causing Asahikawa Teen’s Fall as Police Arrest Teen Recruiter in Tochigi Case

May Survey Finds No Squid Caught in Sea of Japan, First Zero Since 2001

Zookeeper Served Murder Warrant After Bones Found in Zoo Incinerator

Researchers Chemically Confirm K/Pg Impact Layer in Eastern Hokkaido

Ainu Repatriation Reaches Japan as Legal Challenge Targets Upopoy Custody

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58 Gravestones Toppled in Hokkaido Cemetery as Police Investigate Vandalism

Japan Ends Major-Quake Advisory After New 6.1 Tremor in Hokkaido

Magnitude 6.2 Quake Shakes Hokkaido With No Tsunami Warning

Hunter Hurt as Wounded Brown Bear Rolls Down Slope in Hokkaido Cull

Hokkaido City Worker Confesses to Dumping Wife’s Body in Asahiyama Zoo Incinerator

Hokkaido Wildfire Near Nosappu Cape Extinguished After Burning 328 Hectares

Mt. Rausu to Reopen in July Under New Five-Day Bear Closure Rule

Japan Confirms H5N1 Outbreak at Hokkaido Poultry Farm, Orders Culling of 190,000 Chickens

Princess Kiko and Prince Hisahito Join Youth Ski Orienteering in Hokkaido

Unification Church Ordered Dissolved After Court Details ¥650 Billion in Transfers as Germany Boycotts Paralympics Opening and China Targets 4.5–5% Growth

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