Airport staff used a car to chase it away and closed the runway again, with the bear still at large somewhere in the facility ...

Yamagata Airport in Higashine, Japan closed its runway after a black bear was seen roaming the area. Officials attempted to ...

He might be smarter than the average bear. A Japanese airport is in a “stalemate” with a black bear who has repeatedly ...

Twelve flights were canceled Thursday as airport employees chased the bear around the runway, an airport official said. The ...

A female brown bear and her cub hunt for salmon at the mouth of a river in the Shiretoko Peninsula, a World Heritage site, in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Sept. 3, 2013. Kyodo News/Getty Images/File ...

The Environment Ministry on Tuesday announced guidelines that list conditions and procedures for allowing the shooting of ...

Bear attacks in Japan at record high as the animals struggle to find food 03:05. A bear that rampaged through a Japanese supermarket for two days was lured out with food coated in honey, local ...

TOKYO, Japan — A wild brown bear on the loose in a city in northern Japan wounded four people, entered a military camp and disrupted flights at an airport Friday before being fatally shot. The ...

Local authorities killed a bear that mauled a supermarket employee in Japan after the bruin emerged from the store following a three-day standoff. On Saturday, a 47-year-old Itoku worker in Akita w… ...

A brown bear wreaked havoc in northern Japan on Friday, injuring four people as it rampaged through a military base and residential streets before being shot dead.

Japan is home to two main types of bear: brown bears, which live in Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s main islands, and a small population of Asiatic bears, ...

A female brown bear and her cub hunt for salmon at the mouth of a river in the Shiretoko Peninsula, a World Heritage site, in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Sept. 3, 2013. Kyodo News/Getty Images/File ...