Sea Shepherd, an international marine conservation activist group which spent years confronting Japanese whaling ships in the past, told CNN that it believes Japan is unlikely to return to the ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--The aging Nisshin Maru, a relic of Japan’s whaling tradition, has finally retired after playing a central role in research and commercial operations for more ...

A commercial whaling ship left a western Japanese port Monday for the Sea of Okhotsk to hunt 25 fin whales. The crew of the ship, which left Shimonoseki port, plans to start hunting fin whales in the ...

Sea Shepherd, an international marine conservation activist group which spent years confronting Japanese whaling ships in the past, told CNN that it believes Japan is unlikely to return to the ...

The new ship replaces the Nisshin Maru, the infamous whaling factory vessel dubbed by activists as a “floating slaughterhouse” that was decommissioned in 2020 after more than 30 years of ...

To do that his company Kyodo Senpaku has built and launched a brand-new whaling $48 million “mothership” – the Kangei Maru. “We are proud of catching whales and are very proud of this ship ...

“Given the ship’s long-range capabilities and drones, and recent announcements from Japan’s fisheries ministry that it is keen to start hunting fin whales, we believe there is a high ...

Sea Shepherd, an international marine conservation activist group which spent years confronting Japanese whaling ships in the past, told CNN that it believes Japan is unlikely to return to the ...

“Given the ship’s long-range capabilities and drones, and recent announcements from Japan’s fisheries ministry that it is keen to start hunting fin whales, we believe there is a high ...