Bear attacks in Japan are on the rise, with the number of incidents reaching a record high for the period from April to July this year. Amid the escalating cases, the environmental ministry is ...

Bear attacks are on the rise in Japan. Since April, over 160 injuries and three deaths have occurred. This is the first year in a decade that bears have killed humans in Japan.

A 58-year-old man has been killed in a suspected bear attack in Japan. Construction worker Yasuhiro Kobayashi was found in a forest in Nagano Prefecture on Friday afternoon. He had large wounds on ...

Japanese vending machines, which offer whale meat, snails-in-a-can or edible insects, have a new dish on the menu: wild bear meat. Different cuts of local black bear are sold from a vending ...

Facing an alarming rise in bear attacks, Japan wants to make it easier to shoot the animals in residential areas - but hunters say it is too risky. In the year to April, there were a record 219 ...

[1] Japan is facing a shortage of bear spray as more residents use it for self-defence amid rising deaths and injuries from animal attacks. This has prompted a warning over using cheap ...

The Environment Ministry will begin an emergency program in November to dispatch bear experts to prefectures and municipalities around Japan that have requested assistance dealing with bear problems.

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 ...