Wrestling star found dead..Wild Bear Attacks Killed
Oct 19, 2025
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According to local media reports such as the TV Asahi and Asahi Shimbun on the 17th (local time), Kasumi Sasaki, an employee who worked at a famous hot spring in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, went missing at around 11 a.m. the previous day. Kasumi Sasazaki was working on cleaning the open-air bath at the time.
Bloodstains, hair that appeared to belong to a bear, and glasses and slippers believed to belong to Kasumi Sasaaki were found at the scene. The police and the Yves Association, who were dispatched to the hot spring official's report, launched a search, and from 8 a.m. on the same day, about 40 people were dispatched to conduct the search and found one body in the mountains 100 meters away from the hot spring. The nearby Asiatic black bear, which was about 1.5 meters long, was killed at the scene.
Kasumi Sasazaki made her debut as a female professional wrestling referee in 1989 and has been active for decades. In 2015, he was the vice president of the professional wrestling organization ZERO1 operator, and in 2018, he was the CEO of Dream On Stage, and until recently, he has been a referee and has reportedly worked at hot springs.
Ogawa Rossi, head of the women's professional wrestling organization 『Marigold"Sazaki Katsumi was a quiet but responsible person. His last umpire activity was in the ring of Marigold "It breaks my heart to think of him leaving behind two young daughters. I pray for the repose of the person who supported Japanese professional wrestling."
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In August, a hiker in his 20s was killed in a brown bear attack in Hokkaido, and in July, a newspaper delivery man was bitten by a bear and died. In the same month, an elderly man in his 80s was killed in a bear attack in Iwate Prefecture.
As a result, the Japanese government implemented an amendment to the Wildlife Protection Management Act last month that allows the use of shotguns when hunting bears in the city center. If the head of a local government deems it necessary, it is possible to use shotguns in urban areas.
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