A man in a bear costume chased residents in Japan during a safety drill conducted following a spate of attacks and sightings. Demonstrations on how to scare off the animals were held in Tochigi ...

Japan is turning to drones in its escalating battle with bears, as authorities deploy new anti-bear tech to deal with them.

Japan is having its deadliest year on record for bear attacks. Since April, seven people have been killed and another is missing and presumed dead. That is the highest annual death toll since ...

Tokyo - Japan's Defense Ministry sent troops on Wednesday to the northern prefecture of Akita to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have horrified residents in the mountainous region. Bears ...

Japan’s military deployed troops to the country’s mountainous north on Wednesday to help trap bears after an urgent request from local authorities struggling to cope with a wave of attacks. The ...

Japan is reeling from an alarming surge in bear attacks as authorities scrambled to contain near-daily encounters of the animals invading homes, schools and even supermarkets. The latest wave of ...

A Japanese city is taking an innovative approach to keeping bears away: drones. Ishinomaki City has ordered bear-spray-carrying drones from Terra Drones to deter bears. The drones can be operated ...

TOKYO — Japan deployed troops Wednesday to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have terrorized residents in a mountainous region in the northern prefecture of Akita. Reports of sometimes deadly ...

Japan is in the midst of a wave of deadly bear attacks, with seven people killed and 88 others mauled in the deadliest month for such incidents in the nation’s history, according to reports. The Land ...