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 ...

Obira sits along the Sea of Japan side of Hokkaido, the main northern island. The driver of a snowplow and his colleague spotted the same brown bear on Jan. 7, 9 and 10. Each of the sightings was ...

The man was visiting from Japan's central Aichi region to see a waterfall in Nayoro's mountainous area when he chanced upon the two brown bears poking their faces out of bushes, the Mainichi ...

shows beyond a doubt that the bones are from an ancient brown bear, Suwa said in an email. He added that the bones of bears were rarely found in archaeological sites in Japan from this time ...

[2] There have been multiple sightings of a brown bear, estimated to be around two ... confrontation between animals and human settlers in Japanese history. [4] Concerns that another powerful ...

Bear attacks in Japan are on the rise ... Officials in Hokkaido say the estimated number of Ussuri brown bears in the prefecture has reached 11,700 and is on the rise. Experts say the population ...

After centuries of coexistence with humans, Japanese bears, who usually eat plants and insects, have run wild, killing and injuring more people than ever. According to public broadcaster NHK, bear ...

On the remote Japanese island of Hokkaido, salmon is abundant, attracting brown bears and fishermen alike. The Erlitou site, dating back to 3,800 years ago, offers crucial insights into early ...

Japan has stepped up measures to deal with ... are allowed to enter the mountains in the early spring, after brown bears come out of hibernation, and actively hunt them. This is just the latest ...

The team compared the Ushikawa Man fossils with bones from 24 specimens of brown bears and Asiatic black bears ... paleoanthropological research remains unchanged,” was quoted in the Japanese ...

A bear occupies the living room of a private home in Kitakata City, Fukushima Prefecture, Tohoku, Japan, warming itself under a "kotatsu," a traditional Japanese heating device, Dec. 24 ...