Kenta Suzuki in an Instagram post last month. It’s a national problem, fueled by the climate crisis and habitat ...

Japan for years has had a problem with bear attacks, but lately it’s gotten so bad the military was deployed to help protect ...

The troops ‘will not actually shoot any bears since they are not trained to fire hunting rifles for the purpose of culling ...

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

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 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, ...

Authorities in Akita prefecture say bear sightings have jumped sixfold this year, prompting local officials to call in help ...

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

Reports of sometimes deadly encounters with brown bears and Asiatic black bears are being reported almost daily ahead of ...

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