Residents in the northern region of Akita are living in fear after dozens of assaults on humans. Riot police and the army ...

A steel company in this northern Japan city has received an influx of orders from local government officials and others for ...

Attacks have also taken place in central Japan. Last month, a bear entered a supermarket in Numata city and attacked shoppers ...

Shiroki Mitsunari does not remember seeing bears in the picturesque Japanese mountain village of Shirakawa when he was a ...

There has been a rise in bear attacks in Japan and we'll tell you what the government is doing to solve the problem.

Japan has deployed troops to the country's north to help trap bears after local authorities said besieged communities were struggling to cope with an unprecedented wave of attacks.

Japan’s Defense Ministry is sending troops to the northern prefecture of Akita to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have horrified residents in the mountainous region. There have been ...

Following a spike in bear sightings and fatal attacks across Japan, the military was called in to help trap bears as local authorities struggle to cope with the wave of attacks. There have been more ...

Thirteen people have been killed and more than 100 injured since April amid a surge in bear encounters across northern Japan ...

Japan’s police began a campaign to cull bears after amended rules permitting them the use of rifles to kill the animals took ...