SUNAGAWA, Hokkaido--A gunshot rang out on a recent morning in a meadow in northern Japan. The brown bear slumped in the cage, watched by a handful of city officials and hunters. The bear had been ...

A bear entered a supermarket in northeastern Japan and mauled a man who worked there. Police said the 47-year-old employee suffered head and facial injuries, but was listed in a stable condition ...

In December, a bear rampaged through a supermarket in northern Japan for two days before being lured out with food coated in honey. It wounded a 47-year-old man before shoppers were evacuated and ...