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 ...

Since April, more than 100 people have been injured and at least 12 killed in bear attacks across Japan, according ...

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

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

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

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

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

The defence ministry and Akita prefecture’s government signed an agreement on the troop dispatch on Wednesday afternoon, ...

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