Japanese whaling mother ship, 9,000 tons Kangei Maru, which the CPWF foundation wants to intercept The Greenland police reported it had arrested environmental activist Paul Watson when his ship ...

They’re on the list of animals that is classified as “vulnerable to extinction,” but despite that, Japan has added them to the list of whales permitted to be hunted by Japanese commercial ...

Almost 89% of Japanese had not bought whale meat in the previous 12 months Japan’s declining appetite for whale meat is nothing new; but is the country also losing patience with its whaling ...

In fact, in the Japanese language, the whale is designated with characters that identify it as a “big fish” – and not a mammal at all. Japanese officials regularly point to what they view ...

Tokoro said that whale meat has fallen out of favor with the Japanese. He said young people tend to think whale meat has a fishy smell and hard texture. The Fisheries Agency currently permits the ...

Activists have called Japan's programme "an illegal whale hunt" Japanese hunters caught and killed 122 pregnant minke whales as part of its Antarctic summer "field survey". A report sent to the ...

Japan’s coast guard sought his arrest over an encounter with a Japanese whaling research ship in 2010, when he was accused of obstructing the crew’s official duties by ordering the captain of ...

Japan’s coast guard had sought his arrest over an encounter with a Japanese whaling research ship in 2010 when he was accused of obstructing the crew’s official duties by ordering the captain of his ...

With anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson free from prison and extradition, we ask how this case reflects on the treatment of climate and environmental activists in Europe.

Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has announced it will not intercept Japanese vessels in the Southern Ocean this season. The anti-whaling group's ships have confronted ships off Antarctica each ...