SUNAGAWA, Hokkaido--A gunshot rang out on a recent morning in a meadow in northern Japan. The brown bear slumped in the cage, watched by a handful of city officials and hunters. The bear had been ...

The oldest human fossils on Japan's mainland were found in a limestone quarry near Hamakita, 40 km east of Ushikawa.

[2] There have been multiple sightings of a brown bear, estimated to be around two ... confrontation between animals and human settlers in Japanese history. [4] Concerns that another powerful ...

10 that its members spotted a brown bear during a cross-country training run at a ski slope in the Kamui-iwa Koen park in Rumoi. According to the city government and the local planning section of ...

shows beyond a doubt that the bones are from an ancient brown bear, Suwa said in an email. He added that the bones of bears were rarely found in archaeological sites in Japan from this time ...

Bear attacks in Japan are on the rise ... Officials in Hokkaido say the estimated number of Ussuri brown bears in the prefecture has reached 11,700 and is on the rise. Experts say the population ...

A pair of bears picked the wrong person to mess with Thursday in Japan when they approached a 50-year-old karate practitioner only to be kicked away, police and media said, marking the latest in a ...

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 ...

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 ...