Immediately after the shooting, a huge rainstorm hit the Rumoi and Soya regions from day to day, and the residents called it "Brown Bear Storm" (羆嵐, Higuma Arashi), which has become the title of many novels and movies about the incident.
Yayo, who received head wounds in the attack, made a full recovery, but Miyoke Umekichi, who was bitten by the bear while being carried on his mother's back, died less than three years later from the wounds. Odo recovered from injury and returned to work, but next spring he fell into a river and died.
Some people started to think the bear was a yōkai. After the attack, most of the villagers of Rokusen-sawa soon left, and it rapidly transformed into a ghost town until 1946, when six families from Osaka came to settle the area for a post-war revitalization. The site was restored in 1990.
Ōkawa Haruyoshi, who was six years old and the son of the Sankebetsu village mayor Ōkawa Yosakichi at the time of the incident, grew up to become a prolific bear hunter. He swore an oath to kill ten bears for every victim of the attack. By the time he reached the age of 62, he had killed 102 bears. He then retired and constructed the "Bear Harm Cenotaph" (熊害慰霊碑, Yūgai Ireihi), a shrine where people can pray for the dead villagers, on July 5, 1977.
Ōkawa Takayoshi, Haruyoshi's eldest son, on May 6, 1980, after an eight-year chase, hunted down a 500 kg (1,100 lb) male brown bear who was nicknamed the "north sea Tarō" (北海太郎, Hokkai Tarō) and is stuffed on display at the Tomamae Local Museum.