One of the factors for human injuries and deaths caused by bears is the expansion of its habitats. Read more at ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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