Surging reports of bear sightings and rising casualties have already hit tourism, disrupted transport and prompted widespread ...

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

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.

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

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

The Japanese government on Friday beefed up existing measures against bears in response to a recent surge in attacks on ...

An airport in the Japanese city of Hanamaki temporarily suspended flights on Wednesday after a bear wandered onto its grounds ...

NHK has learned that a Japanese research institute believes the wild bear population in Akita Prefecture may be growing as a ...