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

Separate bear attacks in Japan killed one and injured four on Friday, officials said, days after the government vowed to toughen measures because of a record year of deadly assaults by the animals.

Bears have killed a record number of people in Japan this year, the environment ministry said on Thursday, as another possible victim was reported missing. Bears hungry because of shortages of food ...

A 69-year-old security guard was attacked by a bear in a public restroom in Japan in the early hours of Friday, Nov. 28, ...

Japan’s military deployed troops to the country’s mountainous north on Wednesday to help trap bears after an urgent request from local authorities struggling to cope with a wave of attacks. The ...

Experts said climate change and shifting populations could explain the uptick in attacks Alamy Japan has seen a marked increase in bear attacks this year — including seven fatal animal attacks, up ...

The sense of fear is palpable in parts of northern Japan, where some locals have fastened bells to their bags hoping the noise will keep bears away, while signs warn people to be on guard. The animals ...

Japan’s Defense Ministry is responding to a surge of bear attacks by sending its military to areas where such incidents are occurring regularly. Troops were deployed to the northern prefecture of ...

Shiroki Mitsunari does not remember seeing bears in the picturesque Japanese mountain village of Shirakawa when he was a child. But since a cub attacked a Spanish visitor there last month, protecting ...

A municipality in northeastern Japan has deleted a warning it posted on social media about a bear sighting after the image ...

TOKYO — Japan deployed troops Wednesday to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have terrorized residents in a mountainous region in the northern prefecture of Akita. Reports of sometimes deadly ...