Experienced breeders and professional bear hunters in the US do use ... Given that both of these dogs are similar in size, both the Akita and German Shepherd have nearly identical life spans.

Yukiko Sasaki, a homemaker out walking her dog around 6 a.m., found an ... a hunter was attacked by another bear in Taiheizan Resort Park in Akita’s Nibetsu district, about 17 kilometers from ...

You are just as likely to see an akita trotting out of ... where the breed's ancestors developed bear-hunting traits hundreds of years ago. While the majority of dog owners worldwide no longer ...

AKITA—A bizarre standoff between police and a marauding bear holed up in a supermarket here finally ended with the animal’s capture on Dec. 2, two days after it broke in and mauled an employee.

On the same day, a bear attacked and injured a man in his 50s who was walking his dog on a mountain road in ... they were attacked inside a forest in Akita Prefecture. The incident led to a ...

It tells the true story of Hachiko, the faithful dog that continued to wait for its master at a train station in Japan long after his death. The cream white Akita Inu, born 100 years ago ...