Bear encounters are rising in Japan, and the problem is not confined to the wilderness.

As habitats and weather patterns shift, people and wild animals are crossing paths more often.

Bear believed to have unlatched and opened a locked window, and was seen turning on and drinking from a tap ...

A bear attack left four people injured in two factories and a residential area in northern Japan's Fukushima on Tuesday, police and media reports said. A record 13 people were killed by bears in Japan ...

You probably won't find one making its way across Shibuya Crossing or shopping in the Ginza district, but Tokyo has a bear ...

Fatal maulings in the last three months have jumped fivefold compared to last year, according to government data.

TOKYO (AP) — A bear injured four people in a Japanese residential area on Tuesday in the latest attack in an area of the country where the animals have increasingly encroached on the human population ...

Japan has begun installing hundreds of cameras in its northern mountains as part of a nationwide survey of the bear ...