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 – ...

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

The troops ‘will not actually shoot any bears since they are not trained to fire hunting rifles for the purpose of culling ...

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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

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