They have brown bears on Hokkaido and black bears on the other islands.
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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I didn’t know Japan has bears.
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
bears and wolves, they just have been extirpated in the past for centuries. i think they are pretty circumpolar, boreal. since the last ice age there was land bridge that allow many animals from north america migrating to asia, and vice versa.