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

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 ...

The Defense Ministry and Akita prefecture signed an agreement Wednesday to deploy soldiers who will set box traps with food, ...

Troops will set traps and assist local hunters but won't use firearms. Over 100 people have been injured and at least 12 ...

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

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, ...

Japan sent troops on Wednesday to help quell a significant rise in bear attacks that have stoked fears among residents in a ...