A town in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido has begun installing high-performance cameras to detect the appearance ...

The male bear is likely the one that killed a a 77-year-old woman in the same town four years ago. Read more at ...

A hunter vanished in Japan near a recent brown bear sighting — just 75 miles from a town that declared its first-ever bear ...

It will remain in effect for a month and comes after a newspaper deliveryman was killed in an apparent bear attack on July 12 ...

Officials in the northern Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido say a brown bear that fatally attacked a man last week was the same ...

Hokkaido on Saturday issued a strong warning of brown bears across one of its towns following a fatal attack on a newspaper ...

The alert comes after the death of a newspaper deliveryman, whose body had claw marks and bites. Read more at ...

Hunters shot and killed a brown bear early on July 18 in a residential neighborhood in Fukushima, Hokkaido, that is suspected ...

A male hunter in his 50s has gone missing on Mt. Esan in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, local authorities said ...

"If you find a bear, be careful to evacuate immediately," Hokkaido police warned. Brown bears roam mainly in Hokkaido forests, but experts say they have been increasingly spotted in inhabited ...

After years of evading capture, a brown bear that attacked 66 cattle in the eastern part of Hokkaido has been culled, according to Hokkaido government sources.