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

By Tim Kelly and Tom Bateman KITAAKITA, Japan (Reuters) -Japanese confectioner Keiji Minatoya's brush with death began when ...

When Japanese soldiers arrived in the northern prefecture of Akita on Thursday, they prepared to face a new kind of threat – ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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, ...