A gunshot rang out on a recent morning in a meadow in northern Japan. The brown bear slumped in the cage, watched by a ...

Bear sightings and attacks have increased in parts of Japan, especially in municipalities close to or adjacent to populated ...

Police officers patrol the area where four people were reportedly attacked by a bear in Higashinaruse Village, Akita Prefecture, northern Japan, on Oct. 24, 2025. (Hidenori Nagai / The Yomiuri Shimbun ...

Four bears were killed in Japan on Monday as the country steps up a culling campaign amid a surge in attacks. This year has ...

Japan faces a deadly surge in bear attacks, prompting the government to deploy army troops as communities struggle with ...

In the past six months, there have been four times the number of people killed by bears compared with last year, and the ...