A "Bear in Area" warning sign displayed near a forest in Akita Prefecture. - AFP
YAMAGATA: A hunter culled a bear that was climbing a tree near a municipal junior high school in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, on Monday (Nov 17).
According to the city government, a resident spotted the bear climbing a persimmon tree in a residential area of the city’s Inaoi district on Sunday afternoon. A member of a local hunter group on patrol found the animal in the neighborhood at around 6am on Monday and shot it.
