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 ...

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

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 ...

Japan has deployed troops to help counter a surge of bear attacks that have terrified residents in a mountainous region in ...

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

The move comes after a record number of bear sightings and attacks on humans in the country in recent years, with Kazuno ...

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.

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