Witnesses sight a bear eating a deer on a mountain slope at the Sounkyo Onsen hot springs resort in Hokkaido, northern Japan.

This article was published in the Autumn 2024 issue of Litterae Populi. The full issue can be found here.Hokkaido University has a student group ...

A man in his 70s suffered injuries to his head and face after being attacked by a brown bear in the mountains of Bibai, ...

This article was published in the Autumn 2024 issue of Litterae Populi. The full issue can be found here.Much of bear ecology ...

HOKKAIDO – The first man slips on a bright green frog hat and, one by one, the rest of the five middle-aged singers follow suit. Then it begins: He croaks out a low baritone tune, the next man ...

The Hokkaido prefectural government has set a spring special alert period, from April 1 to May 31 this year, in the hope of preventing wild brown bear attacks during the time of year when people often ...

A batch of squid imported from Hokkaido, Japan, was found to contain excessive levels of cadmium, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday, as it reported five types of food imports that ...

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TOKYO (AP) — Wildfires have hit several regions in western Japan, injuring at least two people, forcing dozens of residents to evacuate and damaging a number of homes as hundreds of firefighters ...

Police in Sapporo have arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he stabbed 52-year-old male work colleague in the chest with a kitchen knife on a street. According to police, ...