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 record-breaking year in Japan in terms of bear-related incidents, with over 200 attacks reported, has prompted authorities to consider changes in the law. The new regulations will allow hunters ...

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 ...

Disclaimer: While this article is based on bear-ifiable facts, it does contain some sharp claws of satire. A prefecture in central Japan will begin using artificial intelligence to identify and ...

A bear entered a supermarket in northeastern Japan and mauled a man who worked there. Police said the 47-year-old employee suffered head and facial injuries, but was listed in a stable condition ...

Bear attacks are on the rise in Japan with a record 219 incidents — including six fatalities — reported during the last fiscal year. As the animals emerge from hibernation and fossick for food ...

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 ...

In contrast, the "Opilio species," which is mainly caught in South Korea and Japan, is a popular variety in Japan. In South ...

And in Asahikawa City in Hokkaido, northern Japan, officials are analyzing the DNA of fur and droppings left at the sites of bear sightings at four corn fields. The analysis found that the corn ...

and that the femoral head fossil is also bear bone,” said the authors in the paper. Ironically, the now-falsified finding helped energize Japanese paleontology and archeologists. The explanatory text ...