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 ...

SUNAGAWA, Hokkaido--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 been ...

A man in rural Japan found a bear snuggled up in his living room, local media reported Tuesday, as the government prepares to relax laws on shooting the fearsome creatures. Reports said a man in ...

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

Read the following text, and answer questions 1-9 below: [1] Sightings of a very large bear in northwest Hokkaido have triggered alarm in remote communities that have become synonymous with the ...