The male bear is likely the one that killed a a 77-year-old woman in the same town four years ago. Read more at ...

As bear-related injuries rise in Japan, an insurance company is offering to cover local governments for damages related to ...

The DNA of a bear killed on Friday (July 18) matches that of the bear that killed a 52-year-old newspaper deliveryman in a ...

Hokkaido on Saturday issued a strong warning of brown bears across one of its towns following a fatal attack on a newspaper ...

Officials in the northern Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido say a brown bear that fatally attacked a man last week was the same ...

Authorities in Japan are searching for a hunter who went missing following a possible bear attack in the northernmost ...

A hunter vanished in Japan near a recent brown bear sighting — just 75 miles from a town that declared its first-ever bear emergency, fueling fears he was mauled in a chilling attack.

Local officials have shot dead a bear in a northern Japanese town where a man was killed in a bear attack last week. Police ...

A hunter in his 50s was reported as missing by a friend in Hokkaido, Japan, on July 15. His disappearance comes shortly after ...

Tokyo: A brown bear was killed in the early hours of Friday in the Hokkaido town of Fukushima, northern Japan, where a man ...