A man in his 50s has been hospitalised after a bear attack in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, the latest in a growing string of ...

The governor of a northern region of Japan says authorities were getting "desperate" due to a lack of manpower amid daily ...

Death by bear is far more likely in Japan than in North America, if the data are boldly interpreted and a few assumptions ...

Japan is using its military to counter a surge of bear attacks that have terrorized the country in recent months.

A gunshot rang out on a recent morning in a meadow in northern Japan. The brown bear slumped in the cage, watched by a ...

Japan sends in troops after ‘daily’ bear attacks threaten schools and tourist spots - Bear attacks have left 12 people dead ...

Troops from the country's Self Defense Force arrived in the northern Akita Prefecture on Wednesday to combat a crisis that ...

When Japanese soldiers arrived in the northern prefecture of Akita on Thursday, they prepared to face a new kind of threat – one with fuzzy ears and up to 220 pounds of mass.

The sense of fear is palpable in parts of northern Japan, where some locals have fastened bells to their bags hoping the ...

A spate of fatal bear attacks across Japan has dominated local news for weeks, prompting the government to send soldiers to ...

Japan says it is dispatching its military after a spate of bear attacks, including one that left a woman dead last week. It ...