As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Things I never considered fascinate me when I come across them. I was wandering through things written when I came across the Sankebetsu Mankeater. For some reason Peter Capstick never pilfered this story for profit, but it is interesting.
When I think of Japan, I think of rice, Toyotas and pretty little women, not man eating bears. On the northern islands though bears appear to attack and kill people as regular as in Alaska. This is a brown bear, about 800 pounds and the one in this story was a real terror as it was breaking into homes and dragging people off to kill it.
The posse sent after it only wounded it and it took additional work for the Japanese hunter to put an end to the bear.
This case is unique as bears are known for tearing into a cabin or tent, and moving on, but this one had a pattern where it came into town to hunt, and ripped into houses to get at people. Not having guns that must have been a really great terror to have a bear tearing at your home and knowing it was only a matter of time before the thing got in and you hoped the wife or kids you shoved at him was an ample offering to save your manly life.
In Hokkaido during the first 57 years of the 20th century, 141 people died from bear attacks, and another 300 were injured. The Sankebetsu brown bear incident (三毛別羆事件, Sankebetsu Higuma jiken), which occurred in December 1915 at Sankei in the Sankebetsu district, was the worst bear attack in Japanese history, and resulted in the deaths of seven people and the injuring of three others. The perpetrator was a 380 kg (840 lb) and 2.7-m-tall brown bear, which twice attacked the village of Tomamae, returning to the area the night after its first attack during the prefuneral vigil for the earlier victims. The incident is frequently referred to in modern Japanese bear incidents, and is believed to be responsible for the Japanese perception of bears as man-eaters. From 1962 to 2008, 86 attacks and 33 deaths occurred from bears in Hokkaido.
While Yamamoto Heikichi is not known worldwide for bears in numbers as Davy Crockett in killing a bar when he was only 3, he did get the bear for which people remember him. In reading about all of this, I found that people were questioning whether Davy Crockett could have killed 105 bears in one year. That is puzzling, because if you read his writings, Davy was out killing black bears with a knife, wading into earthquake faults as the hounds held the bear at bay. They rendered the fat into lard, put it into barrels and barged it down to New Orleans for sale. It was how you made a dollar back in the day.
Crockett spoke of the great New Madrid quake and the aftershocks which were rocking the region years later on his bear hunts.
Yes Davy Crockett is more interesting a bear hunter than this Japanese, so he is added as the interesting part of this terror episode of bears still rampaging in Japan, mauling and killing little Japanese people.
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