Separate bear attacks in Japan killed one and injured four on Friday, officials said, days after the government vowed to toughen measures because of a record year of deadly assaults by the animals.

Other stories of recent bear encounters in Japan come to a more harrowing end. In October, local police in Iwate Prefecture, a region in northeastern Japan, reported that a man was out foraging ...

SUNAGAWA, Japan (Reuters) -A gunshot rang out on a recent morning in a meadow in northern Japan. The brown bear slumped in the cage, watched by a handful of city officials and hunters. The bear had ...

U.S. officials are warning visitors to Japan to be extra vigilant for aggressive bears, especially in the northern part of the Asian country. On Nov. 12, the U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Japan ...

Japan’s Defense Ministry is responding to a surge of bear attacks by sending its military to areas where such incidents are occurring regularly. Troops were deployed to the northern prefecture of ...