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Giant “Ninja Bear” has been attacking dairy farms in Hokkaido for three years

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 14, 2022
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Expert expresses concern about possible ninja bear apprentices adopting its hunting practices.

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• (animal attack • bears • crazy • Hokkaido • video • weird)

Bear literally gets its butt kicked by Japanese man after sneaking into his house

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 27, 2022

Says he kicked the bear’s butt for the sake of his mom and cat.

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• (animals • bears • Buddhist altar • butsudan • COK • crazy • funny • scary • weird)

Site of the worst bear attack in Japanese history is a chilling place to visit

• Oona McGee
  Jun 24, 2022

You might not want to visit this area alone.

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• (animals • bear attack • bears • brown bears • COK • Hokkaido • Sankebetsu Brown Bear Incident • Saya Togashi • SNJO • Tomamae • tourist sites • travel)

Japanese KitKat Bears debut exclusively in Japan, but are they any good?

• Oona McGee
  Jan 29, 2022

Join us as we break into this limited-edition box of Valentine’s Day chocolates.

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• (bears • candy • chocolate • COK • cute • food • Japanese KitKats • KitKat • KitKats • limited edition • love • Nestle • Nestle Japan • SNO • sweets • taste test • Teddy Bears • valentine chocolate • Valentine's Day)

New Japanese KitKat is…a Heartful Bear!

• Oona McGee
  Jan 20, 2022

Japan-exclusive chocolate comes with special messages for Valentine’s Day.

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New Japanese hotpot restaurant directs you to melt an adorable bear like a movie villain

• Katy Kelly
  Dec 14, 2021

If you go down to Kuma-chan Onsen today, you’re in for a big surprise…

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• (bear • bears • cute • Hokkaido Menkoi Nabe Kuma-chan Onsen • hot springs • hotpot • Kuma-chan Onsen • morbid • nabe • Restaurant • SNJO)

“Who the hell are you?” Japanese man asks bear while it’s attacking him

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 21, 2021

Bear refuses to answer.

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• (animals • bears • COK • crazy • funny • scary)

We pop into Bear Paw Cafe in Osaka… Actually it popped out to us

• Master Blaster
  Sep 10, 2021

An adorable way to help deal with complex problems.

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• (Bear Paw Cafe • bears • cafes • coffee • COK • cute • health • Kuma no Te Cafe • mental health • Mental Support General School • Osaka • SNO • sweets)

Japan’s Bear Paw Cafe: A safe space for staff with mental health challenges

• Oona McGee
  Sep 3, 2021

New cafe is a literal hole-in-the-wall, where you’ll be served by fluffy bears.

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• (bears • cafes • drinks • heartwarming • Kuma no Te • mental health • new • Osaka • parfaits • social issues • social welfare • society • sweets)

Japanese firework catapults a teddy bear into the sky

• Oona McGee
  Aug 18, 2021

Proof that people in Japan really are spoilt with crazy, unusual goods. 

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Yamagata kids on way to school accidentally say “good morning” to wild bear

• Master Blaster
  Jun 22, 2021

Bear was reportedly very rude.

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• (bears • children • culture • greetings • Japanese etiquette • Oguni • safety • Yamagata)

Busy morning in Sapporo as bear attacks coincide with naked man walking around town【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 18, 2021

Hokkaido’s capital city gets a whole day’s worth of craziness in before noon.

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• (animals • bears • crazy • Sapporo • video • werid)

Death of a Japanese man attacked by bear sparks conversation about what to do when facing off with one

• Katy Kelly
  Apr 14, 2021

Is there any way to avoid a grisly end?

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• (animal attack • bears • brown bears • death • hiking • Hokkaido • safety • self defense)

Town in Japan now protecting itself from bears with Monster Wolf robot【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 21, 2020

Hokkaido community considers creating an entire wolfpack of howling sentries with glowing red eyes.
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• (animal control • animals • awesome • bears • cool • crazy • Hokkaido • robots • scary • video • wolves)

82-year-old woman fights off bear in Japan: “I sent him flying”

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 21, 2020

Bear picks wrong lady to mess with in her back yard.

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Bear sightings skyrocket in Japanese town feuding with local hunting association

• Casey Baseel
  May 11, 2020

Alternate methods being employed as hunters hold out for higher pay.

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• (animals • bears • COK • Hokkaido • hunters • hunting • nature • society)

Black bear in Sendai becoming proficient with the three-section staff

• Master Blaster
  Apr 15, 2020

Park exercising its constitutional right to arm bears.

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• (bears • black bear • fighting • martial arts • sajiegun • sansetsukon • Sendai • three-section staff • Yagiyama Zoological Park)

Japanese town refuses to pay bear patrol hunting club as animals spotted on streets, at harbor【Vid】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 25, 2018

”It’s like they’re saying the money is more important than our lives” says frustrated hunter.

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• (animals • bears • controversy • government • Hokkaido • hunters • video)

Japanese man wins fight against bear that attacked him by punching it right in the face

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 13, 2018

Never bring a bear to an opposable thumb fight.

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• (animal attack • animals • Aomori • awesome • bears • crazy • Hirosaki • scary • weird)

Japanese graves and Shinto shrines under attack by bears for their sweet, sweet honey

• Master Blaster
  Jul 11, 2018

It’s as if bears have no regard for religious symbolism.

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• (Asian Black Bear • bears • honey • Hyogo • Inari Shrine • Kasai • shrines)

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