![]() ![]() He finished eating and casually looked 50 to 60 meters ahead and saw a Yezo deer ascending a slope. ![]() Just before noon, Harada sat down to snack on some rice balls. The four men started tracking different routes at 6 a.m. Harada was so excited that he could not sleep the night before the expedition. 1, 2000, the opening day of the Yezo deer-hunting season. Harada and three hunting companions entered a mountain in Hokkaido’s Shiranuka area on Nov. He is seeking measures to prevent anyone from experiencing what he went through. The veteran hunter, now 83 and living in Iwamizawa, Hokkaido, said human encounters with bears have increased in the area. The skull’s jaw is movable, allowing Harada to show how the bear’s teeth, including its sharp fangs, chewed his head and left him disfigured.īut it was a lesson he learned in his childhood about the animal’s mouth that saved Harada’s life. Katsuo Harada keeps in his possession the skull of a brown bear that nearly killed him 23 years ago. ![]()
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