Many members of the international community consider whale-hunting a barbaric practice that should have been banned decades ago. But some countries have ...
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 ...
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.
Animal rights activist Paul Watson, freed this week from detention in Denmark, vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting ...
Watson has been fighting for the rights of whales and the wider environment for more than 50 years - and is showing no signs ...
Japan’s whaling fleet returned on Saturday after catching ... Three of the vessels, including the mother ship, the Nisshin Maru, arrived at the port of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture ...
Since 2019 it has only caught whales in its own waters. But in May, Japan launched the Kangei Maru, a whaling mother ship. Activists believe this means Japan intends to resume whaling in the ...
Japan is making bold moves to change its anti-war culture. That’s not by choice. It’s out of necessity. Japan’s Maritime Self ...
At the time, commercial whaling by countries such as Japan and the Soviet Union was driving ... In late June of 1976, the ship sailed from Mendocino Bay to San Francisco, where it began its ...
The “four-piper” destroyer ship was the only vessel captured by Japanese forces during World ... biggest animal in the world may be the blue whale, but researchers in 2024 determined that ...