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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Following a spike in bear sightings and fatal attacks across Japan, the military was called in to help trap bears as local ...

The footage, which was shared to the subreddit r/WinStupidPrizes, shows a person trying to hand-feed a bear through the ...

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

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