The Wakayama Prefecture town of Taiji, known for its whale and dolphin hunts, said Wednesday it is establishing a sister-city relationship with a town in the Faroe Islands with similar traditional practices. Taiji and the Klaksvik in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic are ...
Japanese vessels left a port in northern Japan on Tuesday to catch around 30 minke whales in the northwestern Pacific, a whaling group and the Fisheries Agency said. The vessels plan to conduct what the government refers to as research whaling, between 50 to 90 ...
New Zealand spied on Japan to help the United States at an international whaling meeting in 2007, local media reported Wednesday, citing a classified U.S. National Security Agency document. The document, leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden and published by the Intercept website, described how New ...
Australia said Monday it is "deeply disappointed" that Japan has continued whaling in the Southern Ocean after anti-whaling activists published a photograph of a dead whale two days after Australian and Japanese leaders discussed the issue. Australia has long opposed Japanese whaling and the contentious ...
Sea Shepherd confirms the Japanese whaling fleet is indeed defying the International Court of Justice’s 2014 order to end its debunked “research whaling” program.
Activist group Sea Shepherd's speedy new patrol vessel Ocean Warrior on Friday intercepted a Japanese harpoon ship "hiding behind an iceberg" in thick fog as its annual high-seas battle against whaling kicked off. Two vessels from the environmental organization left Australia on Dec. 5 bound ...
Two ships have left Australia, bound for the freezing Southern Ocean to confront the Japanese whaling fleet in an annual high-seas battle, environmental activist group Sea Shepherd said Monday. The organization's flagship, the Steve Irwin, departed for Antarctic waters along with fast, new patrol vessel ...
A Japanese documentary that seeks to clear up “misunderstandings” about Japan’s whaling tradition begins showing in New York.
Japanese vessels left Friday to conduct what Tokyo calls "research whaling" in the Antarctic Ocean through March. Japan is planning to hunt 333 Antarctic minke whales in its second whaling expedition in the Antarctic Ocean since an international court ruled against the practice in 2014, ...
The government has announced a plan to cap catches for so-called research whaling at 314 per year in the Northwestern Pacific for a 12-year period starting in fiscal 2017. The proposal is about 100 whales higher than recent levels, which could trigger a backlash from ...
The International Whaling Commission decides to help cash-strapped nations send delegates to its meetings and taps a Japanese official as its next chairman.
The world's whaling watchdog moved Thursday to curtail Japan's annual whale hunt, conducted under scientific license but blasted by critics as a commercial meat haul. A resolution on "improving" the review of deadly research programs, which Japan alone conducts, split the 70-year-old International Whaling Commission ...
