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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The defence ministry and Akita prefecture’s government signed an agreement on the troop dispatch on Wednesday afternoon, ...