NHK has learned that a bustling entertainment district in Akita City, northern Japan, in October saw a decline in its number ...

Other than dogs, at least 220 people have been attacked by bears since April. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

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

AKITA, Japan >> People painted their faces and wore masks to turn themselves into foxes, then paraded through town Oct. 11 ...

Troops will set traps and assist local hunters but won't use firearms. Over 100 people have been injured and at least 12 killed in attacks since April.

Daily reports of bears entering homes and supermarkets are occurring, officials said. Bears have killed at least 13 people ...

As soon as we descended upon the northern Japanese city of Akita, I knew I had brought the wrong clothes for this July holiday. I read that the country was supposed to be cooler during the rainy ...

NOSHIRO, Akita — A bear entered the Aeon Noshiro Store in Noshiro, Akita Prefecture, on Nov 16 morning. According to the ...

Authorities concluded that a smaller animal had inflicted the wounds on the body of the woman, who was in her 70s, after her ...

Shiroki Mitsunari does not remember seeing bears in the picturesque Japanese mountain village of Shirakawa when he was a ...

A bear was culled after it entered a commercial building in Japan's northeastern prefecture of Akita on Sunday. Police say no ...