Valley of Lamentation

In 2015, I serialized a translation of the book Valley of Lamentation (my translation, but also called The Devil's Valley in English) by Kimura Moritake, a record of the worst bear attack in human history which took place in Hokkaido in 1915. I reorganized some of the chapters and added some original material explaining the historical background. 

Part 1: Introduction 

Part 2: The Buried Mysteries of the Tomamae Incident 

Part 3: Visit Exotic Ezo 

Part 4: The Giant Bear Appears in the Frontier 

Part 5: Frontier Group Work 

Part 6: The Ōta Family: Prelude to Tragedy 

Part 7: Bear Arguments 

Part 8: The Doomed Messenger 

Part 9: Sudden Prey of the Giant Bear 

Part 10: The Tomamae Bear-Lion Dance 

Part 11: The Uninvited Guest at the Wake 

Part 12: Making a Massacre of the Miyoke House 

Part 13: No Easy Task for the Exterminators 

Part 14: Midnight Flight from the Frontier 

Part 15: The Formation of the Greater Exterminators 

Part 16: Using Bodies for Bait 

Part 17: Requesting the Deployment of the 7th Division 

Part 18: Key Witnesses 

Part 19: Turmoil at the Ikeda House, or: The Incident of the Bear’s Balls 

Part 20: The Mystery Deepens 

Part 21: Man or Bear?! 

Part 22: Yamamoto Heikichi Looks Back in Anger 

Part 23: Receiving Heaven’s Judgment 

Part 24: The Miraculous Bear Wind 

Part 25: Something of a Cold Case 

Part 26: The Autopsy 

Part 27: What We Learned from the Incident 

Part 28: Where is the Beast Now? 

Part 29: The Great Deeds of Ōgawa Haruyoshi 

Part 30: Recounting the Echoing Incident 

Part 31: What Happened to the Frontier 

Part 32: The Restored Site of the Incident 

Final Part: Afterword