Japan's National Police Agency on Thursday amended rules to allow police officers to use rifles to cull bears, in response to a recent surge in bear attacks on humans. Until now, the regulations for ...

Japan’s police can now shoot bears with rifles as attacks spike - At least 13 people have been killed in the highest number ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its new junior coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, began talks on Thursday ...

The number of deaths caused by bears since April has reached a record 13, said the Environment Ministry. Read more at ...

The draft revision prohibits nonconsensual acquisitions of location information as well as the planting of a device without ...