By Tim Kelly and Tom Bateman KITAAKITA, Japan (Reuters) -Japanese confectioner Keiji Minatoya's brush with death began when ...

When Japanese soldiers arrived in the northern prefecture of Akita on Thursday, they prepared to face a new kind of threat – ...

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

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

Japan has deployed troops to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have terrorized residents in the northern prefecture ...

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 ...

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 ...

A spate of fatal bear attacks across Japan has dominated local news for weeks, prompting the government to send soldiers to ...