At the prefecture's request, Japan's army has deployed to help hunters set traps for a cull aimed at thinning a bear ...

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

Official statistics confirm the spiraling bear crisis, with 20,792 sightings reported nationwide over the six months to ...

Japan deployed troops to the country's rugged north on Wednesday to help trap bears after local authorities said besieged ...

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.

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 ...

Since April, nine people across Japan have died in bear attacks, the highest toll ever recorded in a single year, according ...

Soldiers not authorized to use firearms to kill bears, but rather to assist with logistics tasks - Anadolu Ajansı ...

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

Bears have been increasingly encroaching into Japan's towns due to factors ranging from a declining human population to ...

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