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Firefighters and army helicopters battled a fire that burned through old wooden houses in a fishing town in southwestern ...

Since 1994, the U.S. Army and the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force have annually conducted Rising Thunder, an ...

The threats from bears aren’t only physical. Japan’s NHK news outlet reported that in one recent instance, bears devoured ...

Japan’s military deployed troops to the country’s mountainous north on Wednesday to help trap bears after an urgent request from local authorities struggling to cope with a wave of attacks.

A record 13 people have died in over 100 bear attacks in Japan this year, with some blaming food shortages as animals venture ...

More than 14 U.S. Army and Marine divisions never landed on X-Day of Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan to end ...

The fire started during strong winds Tuesday evening near a fishing port in the city of Oita and spread to a forest. Oita is ...