In the administrative year ending last April, Japanese authorities recorded 219 bear attacks across the country — a record since the government began compiling statistics. Six people died while ...

The discovery suggests that if bears learn to associate traps with easy prey, the risk of encounters with humans could rise.

SENDAI, Japan -- Wildlife such as deer and boars are increasingly damaging crops in the Tohoku region on the north of Japan's main island, while human encounters with bears -- including attacks by ...

The 608-pound fish, equivalent in weight to a typical male grizzly bear, was caught off the coast of Oma in northern Japan's Aomori prefecture on Saturday morning, according to Japan's Kyodo News ...