An epidemic of bear attacks has led authorities in northern Japan to ask for assistance from the Self-Defense Forces.
Japanese confectioner Keiji Minatoya, who was attacked by a bear in 2023, told Reuters news agency that he thinks authorities ...
By Tim Kelly and Tom Bateman KITAAKITA, Japan (Reuters) -Japanese confectioner Keiji Minatoya's brush with death began when ...
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 ...
Japan has deployed troops to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have terrorized residents in the northern prefecture ...
KITAAKITA, Japan >> Japanese confectioner Keiji Minatoya’s brush with death began when he lifted the shutter of his garage ...
Reports of sometimes deadly encounters with brown bears and Asiatic black bears are being reported almost daily ahead of ...
A gunshot rang out on a recent morning in a meadow in northern Japan. The brown bear slumped in the cage, watched by a ...
Japan says it is dispatching its military after a spate of bear attacks, including one that left a woman dead last week. It ...
Troops from the country's Self Defense Force arrived in the northern Akita Prefecture on Wednesday to combat a crisis that ...