Welcome back to Scary Bear Attacks! Today’s episode takes us back to familiar territory. If you remember our episode on the Sankebetsu Bear Attack you may remember the Japanese Island of Hokkaido. That episode was centered on a remote village that involved one of the worst bear attacks in world history. Today’s episode is located in the prefecture’s largest city, Sapporo. This city has over 2 million residents and features an airport as well as a military base for Japanese National Defense Forces. The city is a typical urban landscape in composition but more interestingly, just outside the city are very dense forests of Ezo Spruce, Sakhalin Fir, and Sakhalin Spruce. Scattered stands of Erman’s Birch on the mountains that fade into Deciduous forests of Mongolian Oak, Lime Trees and Ash Trees flow through the lowlands to the seashore. The ground i ...