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

Scientists say that bear numbers have grown in Japan in recent years thanks to an abundance of food due to a warming climate ...

Troops sent to northern Japan to help stop bear attacks on people after casualties hit record Japan's Self-Defense Forces ...

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

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

Japan's Defense Ministry sent troops on Wednesday to the northern prefecture of Akita to help contain a surge of bear attacks ...

Japan began deploying soldiers on Wednesday to a northern region hit by a spate of deadly bear attacks, which have risen to ...

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

There have been more than 100 bear attacks with a record 12 people killed across Japan in the year since April, according to ...

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

Troops will help transport, set and inspect the box traps used to capture the bears, not the culling. Read more at ...