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

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

TOKYO: Japan will allow riot police to shoot bears with rifles in a revision of its strict gun laws announced on Thursday (Nov 6) as authorities battle a record number of fatal attacks.Bears have kill ...

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

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 a sharp rise in bear ...

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

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

Surging bear numbers, scarce food and fewer hunters mean another disaster on the scale of the Sankebetsu massacre cannot be ...

KAZUNO: Japan's military deployed troops to the country's mountainous north on Wednesday (Nov 5) to help trap bears after an ...

The recent spate of deadly bear attacks across Japan prompted filmmakers to postpone the release of a sometimes ...

JAPAN has become the world’s bear attack capital after a record number of fatal encounters which have left humans savaged and ...