Seven people have died since April this year - the highest number since figures started being recorded in 2006, officials say ...

Authorities in Japan said three people were killed by bears in the span of one week, including one elderly man who was ...

Tomiichi Murayama, Japan's prime minister from 1994, was best known for the "Murayama Statement," an apology delivered on the ...

Reports of bear attacks in Japan, including in residential neighbourhoods, have become more common in recent years.

Amid a series of fatal bear attacks against people in Japan, a man was found dead Friday around 9 a.m. in a wooded area of ...

Experts say warmer weather is also affecting the hibernation patterns of bears, which can weigh 1,100 pounds and outrun a ...

TOKYO: Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday (Oct 17) aged 101, officials said.Murayama issued the 1995 ...

At least 7 people have died in bear attacks since April, making it the largest toll since 2006, when the country started ...

Bears have killed a record number of people in Japan this year, the environment ministry said on Thursday just as another ...

Japan's lower house scheduling committee board has agreed to hold a parliamentary vote to select the next prime minister on October 21, a senior ...

Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday ...