An epidemic of bear attacks has led authorities in northern Japan to ask for assistance from the Self-Defense Forces.
By Tim Kelly and Tom Bateman KITAAKITA, Japan (Reuters) -Japanese confectioner Keiji Minatoya's brush with death began when ...
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 ...
Reports of sometimes deadly encounters with brown bears and Asiatic black bears are being reported almost daily ahead of ...
The Defense Ministry and Akita prefecture signed an agreement Wednesday to deploy soldiers who will set box traps with food, ...
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 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 ...
Japan says it is dispatching its military after a spate of bear attacks, including one that left a woman dead last week. It ...
Hiroshi Hiyama and Caroline Gardin the sense of fear is palpable in parts of northern Japan, where some locals have fastened bells to their bags hoping the noise will keep bears away, while signs warn ...