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

An elderly woman in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, suffered non-life-threatening injuries after she was attacked by a bear.

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

Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance said Thursday that it will sell to local governments a policy to cover property damage ...

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

The DNA of a bear killed on Friday matches that of the bear that killed a 52-year-old newspaper deliveryman in a residential ...

A safety drill simulating a bear attack took place in Tochigi. This followed a tragic incident in Fukushima where a newspaper ...

The bear was spotted in the morning near the first tee at the Meiji Yasuda Ladies tournament at Sendai Classic Golf Club, a ...

A bear was spotted on a golf course in northeastern Japan's Miyagi Prefecture on Wednesday, prompting organizers of a women's ...

Children learned how to avoid being injured by bears on Thursday at Higashiyama Elementary School in Ichinoseki, Iwate ...

Japan is grappling with a growing bear problem. A dwindling band of aging hunters is on the front line. A record 219 people were victims of bear attacks, six of them fatal, in the 12 months through ...

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