Analysis of The Case
People believed that the attack occurred due to "the animal which doesn't possess a hole" (穴持たず, Anamotazu?)—the bear woke early from hibernation due to hunger, increasing its ferocity. For example, from the end of the Edo era, pioneers deforested the area, using the firewood to process herring into fertilizer, and they reclaimed the inland area from the beginning of Meiji era. The deforestation and increased settlement may have simply brought humans and bears closer—with disastrous results. The lack of natural prey due to deforestation and human depredation is a common reason for wild animals like brown bears (or leopards and tigers in India) to search for food in close proximity to human habitation. Humans are killed because they are close to food, not because the animal is specifically hunting them.
Read more about this topic: Sankebetsu Brown Bear Incident
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