The male bear is likely the one that killed a a 77-year-old woman in the same town four years ago. Read more at ...

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

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

Officials in the northern Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido say a brown bear that fatally attacked a man last week was the same ...

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

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 ...

HOKKAIDO, Japan -- New footage shows a frightening attack by a mama bear on two men driving along a wooded road in Japan. The two men were foraging in the Hokkaido province on April 28 when the ...

Local authorities declared a month-long brown bear emergency for the town following the fatal attack, making it the first ...