Young black bear surprises Sequoia Park Zoo staff with unexpected visit in Eureka, California. Wild cub climbed fence, ...

As Japan faces rising human-bear encounters, an animal trapped in a grocery store injured two men, while a separate reported ...

JAPAN has become the world’s bear attack capital after a record number of fatal encounters which have left humans savaged and ...

Keiji Minatoya saw part of his own skull reflected back at him in a mirror after he was finally able to escape from a bear ...

TOKYO: A bear appears to have killed a man picking mushrooms in a Japanese forest, police said on Friday (Oct 10), the latest ...

Attacks by wild bears on humans in Japan, resulting in deaths or injuries, have surged to an unprecedented level. The ...

Japan has seen a marked increase in bear attacks in 2025 — including seven fatal attacks, up from 5 fatal bear deaths in 2024 ...

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara on Thursday instructed relevant ministries and agencies to draw up an urgent package of measures against wild bears by mid-November amid a series of ...

Three people in Japan were killed by bears in the span of one week, including one man who was picking mushrooms in a forest and another man who was decapitated as he was mauled.

The recent spate of deadly bear attacks across Japan prompted filmmakers to postpone the release of a sometimes ...

The governor of Akita Prefecture in northern Japan has sought help from the country's Self-Defense Forces, or SDF, to capture ...

NHK has learned that fabricated videos purportedly showing humans and other animals chasing away bears have gone viral on social media. Such images are apparently generated by artificial intelligence.