Japan withdrew from the IWC in 2019 and resumed ... such as being able to process whale carcasses indoors. “No other whaling ship in the world is as large and state-of-the-art as this one ...

new 9,300-ton Kangei Maru ship. Approximately 1.4 tons of fresh meat from several fin whales caught off Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido were available for sale at an auction at Sapporo ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture—Japan’s new whaling mothership ... president of Kyodo Senpaku Co., the whaling company that owns the ship, during the ship’s departure ceremony.

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

Animal rights activist Paul Watson, freed this week from detention in Denmark, vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting ...

Japanese authorities had issued an international warrant for Paul Watson's arrest earlier this year, alleging he injured a ...

On December 17, 2024, anti-whaling activist Paul Watson's lawyer informed that the activist was released from Denmark prison and won't be extradited to Japan. Watson was arrested from Nuuk, the ...

has been released from prison in Greenland after Danish officials rejected calls by Japan for him to be extradited over allegations of interfering with a whaling ship. Watson, who is Canadian ...

Kangei Maru — a 9,300-ton new ship — this year in a show of determination to stay in the industry. On Thursday, some 1.4 tons of fresh meat from several fin whales caught off Japan’s ...

In the 2000s and 2010s Sea Shepherd played a rough game of cat and mouse with Japanese ships as they sought to slaughter hundreds of whales every year for "scientific purposes". Former harpooner ...