Sakurai regularly comes face to face with bears as part of his job as a "government hunter" -- a civil servant with a hunting ...

Authorities in Japan are “desperate” to stop an epidemic of bear attacks. A surge of bear attacks have terrorized residents in a mountainous region in the northern prefecture of Akita for most of the ...

A man was attacked by a bear in Japan while using a public toilet, local media reported on Friday, in the latest incident in a spate of record-breaking encounters across the country. The 69-year-old ...

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 ...

The U.S. State Department is warning Americans in Japan to be alert as bear attacks and sightings rise in parts of the country. Americans should avoid areas where bears are sighted, especially if ...

We live in a era of nearly universally grim climate projections, when the rapidly changing weather of our world threatens everything from our ability to maintain a home or get insured, to the future ...