It's not often a documentary is made in response to another documentary, but this year two movies have addressed the 2009 Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove," which was about the capture and killing of wild dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture. First-time filmmaker Keiko Yagi's "Behind ...
A documentary introducing the voices of Japanese people who support whaling and dolphin hunting will be screened at a U.S. film festival in October, its director said Thursday. "Behind the Cove — The Quiet Japanese Speak Out!" will be screened on Oct. 1 during the ...
Japanese fishermen on Friday killed the first dolphins of the season in a controversial annual hunt that has attracted global attention after it was featured in the Oscar-winning 2009 documentary "The Cove." Fishermen from the town of Taiji, in Wakayama Prefecture, caught 20 dolphins, according ...
A Japanese woman hopes a documentary she has made will help opponents of Japan's hunting of whales and dolphins acquire a better understanding of the practice. "Japanese have failed to argue against the criticism, mostly from the West, because silence is a virtue in Japan ...
For the past few weeks I've been having flashbacks of a video that a vegan acquaintance posted on Facebook. Shot on a hidden camera, it depicted hundreds of fluffy male chicks getting conveyed into an industrial grinder, their punishment for being deemed surplus to ...
Japan can change its image as the democracy where dissent is in detention by holding a debate with dolphin hunt opponent Ric O'Barry before expelling him.
U.S. animal rights activist Ric O'Barry, star of "The Cove," an Oscar-winning documentary about the fishing village of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, where dolphins are trapped and hacked to death, has been ordered to leave Japan. O'Barry, the former dolphin trainer for the "Flipper" TV series, was detained ...
Ric O'Barry, a prominent advocate for ending the dolphin hunt in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, was detained Tuesday by immigration authorities at Narita International Airport. O'Barry, who was featured prominently in the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove" about the Taiji hunt, was barred entry when immigration officials ...
A threatening letter has been sent to a whale museum in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, demanding that local fishermen halt controversial drive hunts of dolphins, police said Thursday. The letter, handwritten in Japanese, said, "Stop drive hunts of dolphins now!" and "I cannot contain (my anger) ...
On the harbor road heading east toward Tomyozaki Point, there is a moss-encrusted monument dedicated to an ill-fated whaling expedition in 1878. Facing fierce westerly winds, the fishermen released their catch, a right whale and her calf, and tied their boats together with nets ...
Fishing boats in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, set sail for the first dolphin drive hunt of the season Thursday morning, as some 15 foreign activists staged protests around the town's harbor facility. The hunt, which was delayed for two days due to bad weather, saw 12 ...
A U.S. activist featured in the Oscar-winning 2009 documentary "The Cove" about dolphin hunts in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, has been arrested in the nearby town of Nachikatsuura for not carrying his passport. Ric O'Barry, 75, was arrested Monday night after admitting to police he did ...
