Economy | ANALYSIS
Households to take hit from tax hike
by Tomoko Otake
The consumption tax increase will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people’s financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the hike's impact.
Crime & Legal Jul 16, 2013
World court hearings on Japanese whaling draw to an end
The world court on Tuesday concluded hearings on a case brought by Australia to stop Japan’s research whaling in the Antarctic . This is the first case at the International Court of Justice involving Japan as a litigant. The Hague-based U.N. court is expected ...
National Jun 20, 2013
World court to hold hearings on whaling case
The International Court of Justice plans public hearings with Japanese and Australian officials from June 26 through July 16 in a case over Japan’s whaling in the Antarctic Ocean. In the case filed by Australia in May 2010, the main issue is whether the ...
National Jun 2, 2013
Hacker group Anonymous warns Japan on whaling
In a message posted on YouTube, the hacker group Anonymous orders Tokyo to stop hunting whales and urges Japanese not to "follow the idiotic belief of your government."
National Apr 13, 2013
Australia welcomes ICJ hearings in case to halt Japanese whaling
Canberra on Friday welcomed the International Court of Justice’s decision Thursday to schedule three weeks of public hearings in The Hague from June 26 on Australia’s case against Japan’s so-called research whaling. “We will now have our day in court to establish, once and ...
National Apr 12, 2013
Australia to tackle Japan on whaling at U.N. world court
Australia is to fire the opening salvoes in a legal battle before the United Nations highest court in June aimed at stopping Japan’s whaling operations in the Antarctic Ocean. “The International Court of Justice . . . will hold public hearings in the case ...
Japan-related Apr 10, 2013
A Japanese poet's whale elegy
by Shaun O'dwyer
If some Japanese advocates of whale hunting could commune with their ancestors, they'd feel the past dismay at the impious waste of whales’ lives.
National Apr 6, 2013
Whale institute still justifying lethal research
by Peter Brieger and Hiroshi Hiyama
The Institute of Cetacean Research can be found in a nondescript white brick office building in Tokyo’s port district. Down a hallway and through an unmarked door is a small lobby with a model ship, a poster showing various whale species, and a sign ...
National Mar 23, 2013
Sea Shepherd sues whalers for piracy in Dutch court
Sea Shepherd has filed a suit against the crew of the whaling ship Nisshin Maru, alleging piracy and attempted manslaughter following a clash with two of the environmental group’s vessels in the Antarctic Ocean last month, their lawyers said. “We hereby lodge a suit ...
National Mar 4, 2013
Whaling fleet 'departs' with record-low haul: Sea Shepherd
Japan's whaling fleet has left the Antarctic Ocean whale sanctuary and appears to be heading home following its smallest catch on record, the Sea Shepherd environmental group says.
National Feb 28, 2013
Japan will never stop whaling: fisheries chief
by Harumi Ozawa
Fisheries minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said Japan will never stop hunting whales despite fierce criticism from other nations and violent clashes at sea with militant conservationists. “I don’t think there will be any kind of an end for whaling by Japan,” he said Tuesday. Hayashi, ...
National Feb 27, 2013
U.S. judge labels antiwhaling group 'pirates'
A U.S. appeals court has labeled militant conservationist group Sea Shepherd as pirates and cleared the way for Japanese whalers to pursue legal action against them. “You don’t need a peg leg or an eye patch” to be a pirate, declared Alex Kozinski, chief ...
National Feb 27, 2013
Sea Shepherd, whalers slam hulls in Antarctic waters
Japanese whalers and militant conservationists have again been in dangerous clashes off Antarctica, with both sides accusing the other of ramming their vessels. Veteran antiwhaling campaigner Paul Watson said that on Monday the factory ship Nisshin Maru rammed the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s much ...