Five people were attacked by bears in three Japanese prefectures on Sunday, but none suffered life-threatening injuries, ...

Japanese authorities have warned residents to prepare for bear encounters after a surge in attacks led the government to ...

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

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

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) ...

When in the woods people are advised to make noise, to attach bells to bags, and not to hike alone -- especially at dusk and dawn.

Japan for years has had a problem with bear attacks, but lately it’s gotten so bad the military was deployed to help protect ...

Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that ...

When Japanese soldiers arrived in the northern prefecture of Akita on Thursday, they prepared to face a new kind of threat – one with fuzzy ears and up to 220 pounds of mass.