THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The future of whaling in Japan was thrown into doubt after the International Court of Justice ruled Monday that the nation’s annual hunt in the Antarctic was not really ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...

Japan launched on Tuesday a new "mothership" for its whaling fleet, aiming to hunt around 200 of the marine mammals this year. The nearly 9,300-tonne Kangei Maru, which set off from Shimonoseki and ...

TOKYO -- Japan announced Wednesday that it is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial hunts for the animals for the first time in 30 years, but said it would no longer go to ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s whaling in the Antarctic is at a crossroads after the International Court of Justice ordered the program stopped. The court concluded the supposed scientific research program is ...

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 Shepherd ...

TOKYO, April 6 (Reuters) - Greenpeace's anti-whaling ship Esperanza docked in Japan on Friday on the condition it does not receive the public, after it was barred from coming into port for over a week ...

In 2023, Iceland’s government lifted a ban on commercial whaling. The temporary ban had been implemented in June due to ...

New Zealand is trying to keep a Japanese whaling fleet out of its Antarctic waters. Prime Minister Helen Clark has told the fleet to stay away, saying she will take photos of their hunting activities ...

MINAMIBOSO Japan (Reuters) - To mark the start of Japan's whaling season, workers in the coastal town of Minamiboso on Thursday carved up one of the animals as a crowd of grade school students and ...