The Sankebetsu brown bear incident , also referred to as the Rokusensawa bear attack or the Tomamae brown bear incident , was the worst bear attack in Japanese history, killing seven settlers in Rokusensawa, Sankebetsu, Tomamae, Rumoi, Hokkaidō, Japan. The incident took place between December 9 and 14, 1915, after a large brown bear woke up from hibernation and repeatedly attacked several houses in the area.
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