Japanese police are investigating another suspected fatal bear attack, a local official told AFP on June 30, as the number of such deaths remains unusually high. Bear attacks have been on the rise in ...

Fatal maulings in the last three months have jumped fivefold compared to last year, according to government data.

Four hikers were stranded on a Hokkaido mountain after encountering a brown bear. They waited for over three hours before ...

Japan has begun installing hundreds of cameras in its northern mountains as part of a nationwide survey of the bear ...

A DEAD body has been found after a suspected bear attack amid a terrifying wave of fatal maulings in Japan. Authorities in northern Aomori prefecture said the 63-year-old victim was discovered in ...

The bear was far from the wilderness when it crossed paths with a man in a parking lot and leapt on him. Japan's latest bear attack injured four people last week and unfolded partly within view of a ...

Tokyo police are investigating another suspected fatal bear attack after a man's body was found with bite marks.

Japan’s new environment minister vowed tougher measures on Wednesday after bear attacks in the country killed a record nine people this year. Bears have been increasingly encroaching into towns where ...

This file photo shows a bear on a riverbank in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, in October 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Two people were found dead in northeastern Japan in likely bear attacks earlier this ...

An unprecedented number of bear attacks have been taking place this year in Japan, with the situation having gotten so bad that mail deliveries are potentially going to be disrupted and even the ...

The number of bear attack victims in Japan in the seven months through October totaled 196, a record high for the same period in the past five years, the Environment Ministry said Monday. In October ...