A hiker in his 20s was reportedly killed by a brown bear on a Mount Rausu trail in Japan, prompting trail closures and ...

A torn, bloodied shirt was found, local news media said, quoting police. A wallet, hat and watch were also located.

A hiker attacked by a wild brown bear was found dead in northern Japan on Friday, officials said, a day after the bloody ...

Marco Pozzi Photographer/Getty A hunter in Hokkaido, Japan, was declared missing after going out on a hunting trip on Mt.

A 26-year-old man was found dead on a mountain of Japan's northernmost island on Friday, one day after the hiker was reported ...

Officials in Japan said a body found on a mountain is that of a missing hiker who was attacked by a brown bear.

Local authorities killed a bear that mauled a supermarket employee in Japan after the bruin emerged from the store following a three-day standoff. On Saturday, a 47-year-old Itoku worker in Akita w… ...

A female brown bear and her cub hunt for salmon at the mouth of a river in the Shiretoko Peninsula, a World Heritage site, in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Sept. 3, 2013.

Across all of the country, bear-caused deaths and injuries from April through July hit a record high of 54, the Japan Times reported this week, citing the country's environment ministry.

Bear encounters in Japan have been on the rise from an estimated 4,800 in 2009 to over 20,000 in 2020, The Guardian reported, citing statistics from the Japanese environment ministry.

The Japan Bear and Forest Society said that a shortage of food, such as acorns and salmon, along with ageing and depopulating villages in the countryside were making bears venture closer to human ...