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

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

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

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

The Japanese government plans to recruit hunters to cull bears, as anxiety grows in the country over a sharp rise in bear ...

Japan faces a deadly surge in bear attacks, prompting the government to deploy army troops as communities struggle with ...

KAZUNO: Japan's military deployed troops to the country's mountainous north on Wednesday (Nov 5) to help trap bears after an ...

Japan has deployed military personnel to the northern prefecture of Akita following a significant increase in bear attacks ...

The recent spate of deadly bear attacks across Japan prompted filmmakers to postpone the release of a sometimes ...

Surging bear numbers, scarce food and fewer hunters mean another disaster on the scale of the Sankebetsu massacre cannot be ...

Troops will set traps and assist local hunters but won't use firearms. Over 100 people have been injured and at least 12 ...

Japan’s military deployed troops to the country’s mountainous north on Wednesday to help trap bears after an urgent request ...