The prefecture gave a dog to Vladimir Putin to thank Russia for its help after the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, ...

Mir, the Siberian cat gifted to Japan's Akita Governor by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2012, has passed away at age 12 ...

A cat presented by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the governor of a Japanese prefecture has died. The gift was given ...

Local authorities killed a bear that mauled a supermarket employee in Japan after the bruin emerged from the store following ...

Mir, a male cat presented by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Akita Gov. Norihisa Satake, died on Tuesday. It was 12.

The Siberian cat named Mir was sent to Gov. Norihisa Satake in February 2013, after the governor sent President Putin an Akita Inu dog named Yume to show gratitude for Russia’s support for ...

Scattered light rain and snow showers are expected. The high will be 39°. Good air quality (0-50) Primary pollutant O₃ 56 μg/m³ Pressure is the weight of the air in the atmosphere. It is normalized to ...

A bear that attacked a supermarket in Japan gets a tragic end after two days of rampage. A bear that attacked a supermarket ...

A bear that rampaged through a Japanese supermarket for two days was lured out with food coated in honey, local officials ...

A bear that ran amok in a supermarket in northern Japan has been caught two days after it attacked a worker, the latest in a ...

In the summer of 2012, Satake gave Putin a Japanese Akita Inu puppy, for which his prefecture is famous, as a token of gratitude for the assistance Russia provided to Japan after the catastrophic ...

Employees at a supermarket in Akita, Japan, were forced to evacuate when an Asian bear entered the store. The animal attacked ...