Children and their guardians came to school in cars and buses in a town of the northern Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido in the wake of a fatal bear attack.

A man died early on the morning of July 12 in the Hokkaido town of Fukushima after being attacked by a bear, the Mainichi ...

Police are patrolling around the clock in a town in Hokkaido, northern Japan, where a man was killed by a brown bear on ...

The alert comes after the death of a newspaper deliveryman, whose body had claw marks and bites. Read more at ...

Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture, issued a brown bear warning Saturday following a fatal attack on a newspaper ...

In May, Hokkaido police were investigating a fisherman's death from a suspected bear attack near a lake on the northern part of the island, opposite Mount Daisengen. They said at the time that ...

There have been at least seven other non-fatal bear attacks in Hokkaido alone this year, according to the Japanese news site The Asahi Shimbun.

Police said a fisherman went missing at Lake Shumarinai in Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido.

Japan is grappling with increasing conflict between humans and wild bears, prompting calls for officials to rethink how they manage the risks.

HOKKAIDO, Japan -- New footage shows a frightening attack by a mama bear on two men driving along a wooded road in Japan. The two men were foraging in the Hokkaido province on April 28 when the ...