A man in rural Japan found a bear snuggled up in his living room, local media reported Tuesday, as the government prepares to relax laws on shooting the fearsome creatures. Reports said a man in ...

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 ...

Read the following text, and answer questions 1-9 below: [1] Sightings of a very large bear in northwest Hokkaido have triggered alarm in remote communities that have become synonymous with the ...

The Environment Ministry will begin an emergency program in November to dispatch bear experts to prefectures and municipalities around Japan that have requested assistance dealing with bear problems.

A bear measuring about 90 centimeters from head to tail was found in the living room of a house belonging to a man in his 60s in Kitakata, Fukushima Prefecture, on Monday evening, local police said.