A man in a bear costume chased residents in Japan during a safety drill conducted following a spate of attacks and ...

The male bear is likely the one that killed a woman four years ago in the same town where the latest attack took place. Read ...

A hunter vanished in Japan near a recent brown bear sighting — just 75 miles from a town that declared its first-ever bear ...

A town in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido has begun installing high-performance cameras to detect the appearance ...

Hunters shot and killed a brown bear early on July 18 in a residential neighborhood in Fukushima, Hokkaido, that is suspected ...

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

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

The alert comes after the death of a newspaper deliveryman, whose body had claw marks and bites. Read more at ...

A male hunter in his 50s has gone missing on Mt. Esan in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, local authorities said ...

"If you find a bear, be careful to evacuate immediately," Hokkaido police warned. Brown bears roam mainly in Hokkaido forests, but experts say they have been increasingly spotted in inhabited ...

A man in a bear costume chased residents in Japan during a safety drill conducted following a spate of attacks and sightings.