After a terrifying night battling an attacking bear, Kotaro Takahashi checked the garden where the kennel for his dog, ...

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TOKYO, Oct 27 (Reuters) – The governor of Japan’s Akita, a mountainous northern prefecture, has called for the military’s help to protect residents from an unprecedented wave of bear attacks.

TOKYO — Besieged by bears, Japan's north welcomed reinforcements on Wednesday as the military deployed troops to respond to a record wave of attacks. Bears have attacked about 100 people in the ...

Residents in the northern region of Akita are living in fear after dozens of assaults on humans. Riot police and the army ...

When Japanese soldiers arrived in the northern prefecture of Akita on Thursday, they prepared to face a new kind of threat – one with fuzzy ears and up to 220 pounds of mass.