Overview

• Hunters and Sapporo city staff resumed searches on Sept. 28 in woodland near Heiwa Kyuryo Park, but the animal involved in the Sept. 26 attack has not been found.
• City surveillance cameras have not confirmed the bear’s presence at the scene, and morning searches yielded no confirmed traces.
• Sapporo Minami Police reported multiple brown bear sightings on Sept. 27–28 in the Fujino area near homes and urged residents to use caution.
• Nishi-ku has a bear alert in effect as the local hunting association patrolled the area on Sept. 28, finding no individual or fresh sign while checking rivers and previously noted bear feces.
• The injured man, 43, was walking his dog on the evening of Sept. 26 and suffered a right arm injury; reports describe a roughly 2-meter bear accompanied by a cub about 1 meter long, with nearby plant feeding traces also observed.