Activist Paul Watson has revealed a plan to take action against Iceland's whaling activities in June, while continuing to ...

Japan’s Fisheries Agency has proposed expanding commercial whaling along the country’s coast to fin whales, a larger species than the three currently permitted. The proposal comes five years ...

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 ...

TOKYO, Japan (CNN)-- Greenpeace filed a criminal complaint with Japanese prosecutors Thursday, accusing whaling-ship crew members of stealing whale meat from a hunting trip. The environmental ...

Commercial whaling is back on in Japan after a more than three-decade hiatus. The controversial move comes after the country withdrew from the International Whaling Commission on June 30th.

Undeterred by declining appetites for whale meat, and unfazed by global opposition to commercial hunts, Japan's whaling industry is doubling down. Earlier this month, a company unveiled a new ...

This is the third year since Japan resumed commercial whaling in 2019, for the first time in 31 years. Japan’s whaling expeditions in the past two years have been “commercial” in name only.

Japan’s Fisheries Agency said on Monday ships from the country’s whaling fleet returned to port from the Antarctic Ocean with a lower catch than planned after being harassed by anti-whaling ...

IWC's shame: Japan's whale slaughter "We set out to reveal the truth about the government's whaling program, but instead have been punished, while those behind the misuse of public money walk free ...

Japan's government voiced dismay on Wednesday over the release of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson after Danish authorities refused Tokyo's extradition request. Greenland arrested the Sea ...

By the time the International Whaling Commission (IWC) imposed a global moratorium on commercial whaling in 1982, Norway was exporting to Japan most of the whale products from the approximately 2,000 ...

The major industrial whaling nations of the early 20 th century included Great Britain, the United States, Norway, the Netherlands, Japan, Germany, and the Soviet Union, but whalers from Australia and ...