Visitors take souvenir photos next to a bear warning sign at Shirakawa-go, a popular tourist spot and one of Japan’s UNESCO World Heritage sites, in Shirakawa village, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Bear ...

Step into a storybook: Shirakawa-go’s iconic gassho-zukuri houses and scenic mountains make it Asia’s most beautiful village. When most travelers plan a trip to Japan, the usual hotspots—Tokyo’s ...

A Spanish male tourist was attacked by a bear cub Sunday morning during his visit to the scenic mountain village of Shirakawa in central Japan, according to the local government. The 40-year-old ...

This general view shows the “Gassho-Zukuri” village houses lit up in the snow-covered Shirakawa-go in Gifu prefecture, central Japan on January 15, 2023. FILE PHOTO/Agence France-Presse TOKYO — A bear ...

A Spanish tourist was injured after a bear attacked him at the Unesco World Heritage site of Shirakawa-go in Japan’s Gifu prefecture on Sunday morning, local authorities said. The man received a minor ...

Shiroki Mitsunari does not remember seeing bears in the picturesque Japanese mountain village of Shirakawa when he was a child. But since a cub attacked a Spanish visitor there last month, protecting ...