A roughly 100-kilogramme bear was cornered and tranquilized on Tuesday following four days of repeated sightings in a city north of Tokyo, local authorities said.
The animal, believed to be a male Asian black bear measuring about a meter in length, was the first of its kind sighted in an urban area of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, and the first captured in the vicinity since 2020. It is believed to have wandered down from the mountains north of the city.
