Moritake Kimura

was a Japanese non-fiction writer. He is best known for his investigation of the Sankebetsu brown bear incident, which caused the greatest damage in the history of Japanese animal damage.

Biography Moritake Kimura was born in 1920 in Sapporo, Hokkaido. His father, a forestry official, and maternal uncle told him about the Sankebetsu brown bear incident, which caused the most damage in Japanese history, when he was a child, and it left a strong impression on him.

In August 1938, after enrolling in the manufacturing department of Hokkaido Government Otaru Fisheries School, currently Hokkaido Otaru Fisheries High School, he survived a bear attack on Paramushir, where he conducted practical training, that took one life, and since then he had been unable to escape his interest in bears. This was reprinted in 1980, and further published as "The Devil's Valley" on December 9, 1994, by Kyōdō Culture Agency on March 1, 2008, and by Bungeishunjū on April 10, 2015.

He retired as a forestry official in 1980. Before his retirement, he worked at the offices of the Imperial Household Forestry Agency in Engaru, Nakatonbetsu, Ikutora, Horokanai, Kotanbetsu, Daisetsu, and Asahikawa.

Since then, he began writing and researching wild animals, as like vegetation sixty years after the eruption of Tokachidake. However, at 8:20 a.m. on September 6, 2019, he died at a hospital in Sapporo due to acute heart failure, at the age of 99. His funeral and memorial service were held only by his close relatives.

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