An Asian black bear that entered a supermarket in the city of Akita (northeastern Japan) on Saturday and attacked an employee, causing injuries, was captured and sacrificed on Monday, as confirmed ...

While its numbers have been growing in Japan, the Asiatic black bear is listed as vulnerable on the IUCN’s red list of threatened species globally. The brown bear is listed as least concern.

The discovery suggests that if bears learn to associate traps with easy prey, the risk of encounters with humans could rise.

The incident comes about eight years after a karate black belt fended off a charging brown bear while he was fishing in Japan, the Mainichi newspaper reported. That man suffered bite and claw ...

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.

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 ...

And in Asahikawa City in Hokkaido, northern Japan, officials are analyzing the DNA of fur and droppings left at the sites of bear sightings at four corn fields. The analysis found that the corn ...

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 ...

The Himalayan Black Bear is a widespread denizen of temperate forests at elevations between 4,000 feet and 12,000 feet. Black in color with a distinctive white V on its chest, it grows to 7 feet ...

A man in rural Japan found a bear snuggled up in his living room, local media reported Tuesday, as the government prepares to relax laws on shooting the fearsome creatures. Reports said a man in ...