It means Japan will be able to freely hunt species currently protected by the IWC, like minke whales. Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said commercial whaling would be restricted to Japanese ...

Many members of the international community consider whale-hunting a barbaric practice that should have been banned decades ago.  But some countries have ...

mandated by customary international law and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.” The post Japanese Commercial Whalers Can Now Hunt Fin Whales first appeared on The Inertia ...

Japan plans to add large fin whales to its commercial hunting list almost five years after it resumed whaling along its coast. The Fumio Kishida government supports the sustainable hunting of ...

A small fleet of whaling vessels have caught their first whales in Japan's first commercial hunt in decades, in defiance of international criticism. The whaling ships have a permit to catch 227 ...

Built at a cost of US$ 47 million, the 9,300-ton Kangei Maru has a slipway to haul up to 70- ton fin whales, and can store up to 600 tons of meat. Japan has launched a brand new whaling fleet ...

The vessel will replace Japan's only existing mother ship ... refers to the process where smaller and more agile craft hunt the whales, then bring the carcasses to the bigger ship for freezing.

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture—Japan’s new whaling mothership ... Some large individuals weigh up to 80 tons. The hunting of fin whales requires a fleet of vessels led by the whaling ...

In response, Japan embarked on a “research whaling ... The Fisheries Agency permits the hunting of three large whale species: minke, Bryde’s and sei whales. But minke whales have become ...

Animal rights activist Paul Watson, freed this week from detention in Denmark, vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting worldwide and to stop Japan if it tried to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean.

vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting around the world and stop Japan if it tried to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean. Watson, a 74-year-old Canadian-American, returned to France on Friday ...