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 ...

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

Japan is deploying its military amid a flurry of deadly bear attacks in its mountainous regions. The country has seen a ...

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

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

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's military deployed troops to the country's mountainous north on Wednesday to help trap bears after an urgent request ...

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