Police in Japan's Hokkaido prefecture shared dashboard camera captured by a driver whose car was attacked by a mother bear on ...

A driver had a close call when a mother bear charged his car twice near her cub. Bear attacks have killed six people in Japan this year.

A bear was caught on camera attacking a car in Hokkaido, Japan. The bear was crossing the road with a cub when the car passed by.

A woman survived a terrifying attack by a bear that sprang from the darkness on the side of the road and shook and bit her ...

Japan has been dealing with an escalating bear issue in recent years as it grapples with an unprecedented number of attacks.

Bears killed 13 people in Japan last year, as a lack of forest foods increased human-wildlife conflict. But the controversial cull in response has raised concerns with conservationists Every summer, ...

A foreign resident who has been attacked multiple times says he now carries bear spray and a baseball bat when he visits his ...

Japan's bid to make people safer from bears has put the animals at risk on an unprecedented scale. After a record year of attacks in 2024—more than 230 people injured and 13 killed—the government ...

Japan has culled more than 14,000 bears between April 2025 and January 2026 following a record number of attacks on people, but the large-scale killing has failed to stop deadly encounters and raised ...

Japan’s Defense Ministry have sent troops to the northern prefecture of Akita to help contain a surge of bear attacks that ...