Kyoto has installed multilingual signs across the city to warn residents and tourists about bears amid a sharp rise in ...

You have to be comfortable with a certain amount of uncertainty when stepping into a public restroom. Even if the cleaning staff is diligent in its duties, there’s no guarantee that someone who’s used ...

A man was attacked by a bear in Japan while using a public toilet, local media reported on Friday, in the latest incident in ...

The building where the bear attack occurred is centrally located, close to homes and restaurants, and only 1 kilometre from ...

Police in Hashima City, Gifu Prefecture, have arrested a 57-year-old caregiver on suspicion of assaulting three residents at a nursing home where he works in September. Police said Atsuyo Nakao is ...

The government in central Gifu province began using drones last week to “drive away bears” from inhabited areas in Hida city, ...

Approximately 3 hours from Tokyo via Nagoya, Gifu is accessible by bullet train and local train. Gifu Prefecture is in the Chubu region, the center of Honshu, Japan’s largest island. It boasts a ...

When Japanese soldiers arrived in the northern prefecture of Akita on Thursday, they prepared to face a new kind of threat – one with fuzzy ears and up to 220 pounds of mass.