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 bear was spotted running across the tarmac at Japan's Yamagata airport on Thursday morning. Akira Nagai, deputy manager of ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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… ...

Bear attacks in Japan at record high as the animals struggle to find food 03:05. A pair of bears picked the wrong person to mess with Thursday in Japan when they approached a 50-year-old karate ...

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 ...