Death by bear is far more likely in Japan than in North America, if the data are boldly interpreted and a few assumptions made, and this has probably been the case for more than a century. The ...

Japan for years has had a problem with bear attacks, but lately it’s gotten so bad the military was deployed to help protect ...

If you get attacked by a sloth bear, should you try to run? Why could scaring it off be a bad idea? And how can lying down ...

The Japanese government held an interministerial meeting chaired by Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara on the 30th to discuss countermeasures against bear attacks. This year, fatalities from bear ...

Japanese confectioner Keiji Minatoya's brush with death began when he lifted the shutter of his garage and came face to face ...