A man in his 50s has been hospitalised after a bear attack in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, the latest in a growing string of ...

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 ...

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.

Paul: “These are small outboards with no fentanyl and no path to Florida. To kill indiscriminately is akin to summary ...

The NPA has revised its firearms policies to allow riot police officers to cull wild bears with rifles, which have been ...

Japan has deployed troops to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have terrorized residents in the northern prefecture ...