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 ...

AKITA—A bizarre standoff between police and a marauding bear holed up in a supermarket here finally ended with the animal’s capture on Dec. 2, two days after it broke in and mauled an employee.

Employees at a supermarket in Akita, Japan, were forced to evacuate when an Asian bear entered the store. The animal attacked a 47-year-old deli worker, injuring him on the head and face.

A recent incident in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture has brought attention to the increasing number of bear encounters in ...

Earlier this month, a bear rampaged through a supermarket in northern Akita region for two days before being lured out with food coated in honey. It wounded a 47-year-old-man in the supermarket ...

Bears attacked multiple people in and near Akita Prefecture on Oct. 19, including at a central city bus stop and the entrance to a hospital in heavily populated areas. In Kita-Akita city six ...

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.

In the early morning of May 24, a 68-year-old woman was attacked by a 1-meter-long bear in a mountainous forest area in Akita Prefecture, northern Japan. She sustained injuries to her face and arms.

Bear attacks in Japan are on the rise, with the number of incidents reaching a record high for the period from April to July this year. Amid the escalating cases, the environmental ministry is ...