A rogue bear that terrorised a supermarket in northeastern Japan was captured and killed after a two-day hunt that ended on 2 ...

A gunshot rang out on a recent morning in a meadow in northern Japan. The brown bear slumped in the cage, watched by a ...

A bear that attacked a supermarket employee in the city of Akita on Saturday and remained inside the store over the weekend was captured in a box trap on Monday, police said. Authorities are now ...

The bear entered the store in Akita early on 30 November as 20 employees ... remained closed throughout the hunt, preventing what could have been a far graver outcome. Bear encounters in Japan ...

The approximately 1-meter-long bear was finally confirmed as captured at the store in Akita Prefecture around 8:10 a.m., some four hours after a sensor on one of the box traps was triggered.

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.

A bear that ran amok in a supermarket in northern Japan has been caught two days after it attacked a worker, the latest in a ...

Another prefecture that struggles with bear attacks is Akita, which had 70 people injured ... after brown bears come out of hibernation, and actively hunt them. This is just the latest twist ...

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 ... allows for the use of hunting rifles against bears ...