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

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

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 ...

The friend ran to help the victim and witnessed him trying to fight off the bear — before the animal dragged the victim into ...

The man, in his 20s, went missing after a brown bear attacked him while he was descending a mountain in eastern Hokkaido on ...

A wild brown bear attacked and dragged a young hiker into a forest in northern Japan, leaving him missing a day later, police ...

More and more wild bears have been spotted in residential areas in Japan in recent years, resulting in a rising number of attacks and deaths.

A woman in Japan was sent to hospital unconscious after an apparent bear attack outside a facility for people with disabilities, police said on Friday. More wild bears have been spotted in residential ...

A wild brown bear dragged a young hiker into a forest in northern Japan, media and police said Friday, with the victim ...

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.

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 ...

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