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

Japanese police squads armed with rifles have begun a campaign to cull bears that appear in populated areas of northeastern ...

Police in Japan can from Thursday use rifles to shoot bears after strict gun laws were revised to help authorities battle a ...

Signaling a more serious fight to stop deadly bear attacks, Japanese police have a new tool at their disposal, namely rifles, ...

Japan's National Police Agency has decided to send officers equipped with rifles to Iwate and Akita prefectures to help ...

Police in Japan can from Thursday use rifles to shoot bears after strict gun laws were revised to help authorities battle a spate of fatal attacks. A record 13 people have been killed by the animals ...

Japan on Thursday eased rules to allow police to use rifles to cull bears amid rising bear attacks on humans, according to ...

TOKYO: Japan will allow riot police to shoot bears with rifles in a revision of its strict gun laws announced on Thursday (Nov 6) as authorities battle a record number of fatal attacks.Bears have kill ...

Police in Japan can use rifles to shoot bears starting on Thursday after strict gun laws were revised to help authorities ...

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

The amendment will take effect from Nov 13 in response to a recent surge in bear attacks on humans. Read more at straitstimes ...

“The Japanese people forever renounce war,” pronounced Japan’s postwar constitution. The notion, fostered eloquently by General Douglas MacArthur, proved so popular that later Japanese governments ...