“I thought it’s either I kill him or he kills me,” the fisherman said of the unprovoked attack by an Asian black bear in a mountain creek in Japan. An Asian black bear, like this one, made an ...

TOKYO, July 8 (Reuters) - In May, Japanese fisherman Tadasuke Nakamura noticed he had an abnormally large haul of bluefin tuna in his set net off the Pacific coast of Hakodate, on Japan's northern ...

Japanese whalers brought ashore their first catches Monday as they resumed commercial hunting after a three-decade hiatus, brushing aside criticism from activists who say the practice is cruel and ...

Russia said it will suspend harvesting of seaweed by Japanese fisherman around the area of a decades-long territorial dispute from next week while a lighthouse undergoes maintenance. Russia and Japan ...