Japanese confectioner Keiji Minatoya's brush with death began when he lifted the shutter of his garage and came face to face ...

A bear was culled after it holed itself up inside a hot spring inn in Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan on Friday (November 7) ...

Japanese confectioner Keiji Minatoya, who was attacked by a bear in 2023, told Reuters news agency that he thinks authorities ...

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

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

Japan’s Defense Ministry is sending troops to the northern prefecture of Akita to help contain a surge of bear attacks that ...

Japan says it is dispatching its military after a spate of bear attacks, including one that left a woman dead last week. It ...

Reports of sometimes deadly encounters with brown bears and Asiatic black bears are being reported almost daily ahead of ...

A spate of fatal bear attacks across Japan has dominated local news for weeks, prompting the government to send soldiers to ...

Bear sightings are becoming more frequent in northern Japan, and the animals' encroachment on human territory is having ...