The bear-spray drones are not the only drone-based solution Japan has deployed thus far. In November, Gifu Prefecture ...

NAGANO, Japan - Yusuke Sakurai stopped dead in his tracks when he saw the black bear. It was the winter of his second year as a hunter, and the animal was slowly climbing a slope about 40 meters away ...

Haruo Ikegami starts each day at dawn. Just as sunlight interrupts the darkness over his small Hokkaido city, the 76-year-old pulls on his rain boots and dons a bright orange jacket. This is his ...

A man was attacked by a bear in Japan while using a public toilet, local media reported on Friday, in the latest incident in a spate of record-breaking encounters across the country. The 69-year-old ...

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force deployed in November to confront the threat of bears in northern Japan. The rare ...

We live in a era of nearly universally grim climate projections, when the rapidly changing weather of our world threatens everything from our ability to maintain a home or get insured, to the future ...