9/5/2016
Japan began its seasonal hunting of minke whales on Monday, as a fleet of four small vessels left Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan, planning to ...
Japanon Monday opened its "scientific whaling" season on the north coast of country, during which it expects to capture 51 minke whales. The season ...
A Sea Shepherd Australia photo of Japanese whaling fleet's harpoon vessel Yushin Maru No. 2, with a minke whale in the Southern Ocean.
In March 2014, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Japan's research whaling programme in the Antarctic contravened a 1986 moratorium ...