The governor of a northern region of Japan says authorities were getting "desperate" due to a lack of manpower amid daily ...

The Defense Ministry and Akita prefecture signed an agreement Wednesday to deploy soldiers who will set box traps with food, ...

Japan deployed troops to the country's rugged north on Wednesday to help trap bears after local authorities said besieged ...

Troops from the country's Self Defense Force arrived in the northern Akita Prefecture on Wednesday to combat a crisis that ...

Following a spike in bear sightings and fatal attacks across Japan, the military was called in to help trap bears as local ...

Japan began deploying soldiers on Wednesday to a northern region hit by a spate of deadly bear attacks, which have risen to ...

Reports of sometimes deadly encounters with brown bears and Asiatic black bears are being reported almost daily ahead of ...

Japan says it is dispatching its military after a spate of bear attacks, including one that left a woman dead last week. It ...

Japan has deployed military personnel to the northern prefecture of Akita following a significant increase in bear attacks ...

Japan’s Defense Ministry have sent troops to the northern prefecture of Akita to help contain a surge of bear attacks that ...