Wearing a toy whale hat, whale tie and a whale motif shirt, Hideki Tokoro spends much of his days thinking about the world’s largest mammals. But he doesn’t want to protect them. He wants to hunt them ...

Japan has said it intends to allow the hunting of endangered fin whales, some of the largest whales in the ocean. This decision comes as the country opens more and more vending machines selling whale ...

Japan has announced plans to add fin whales — the second-largest animal on Earth — to its list of commercial whaling species, which currently includes Bryde's, sei and minke whales. When you purchase ...

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TOKYO -- Environmentalists in the icy seas, risking life and limb to save whales from the harpoons of Japanese hunters -- it makes for good headlines in the West and has even spawned a TV series, ...

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 ...

TOKYO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The main ship in the whaling fleet of Japan, the world's biggest whaling nation, set out for the Antarctic on Monday for its annual hunt, Greenpeace said, amid criticism from ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan said on Friday it would conduct a sharply scaled down form of its annual Northwest Pacific whaling campaign this year despite an international court ruling last month against ...

“Japan has never given up on its whaling ambitions,” veteran anti-whaling activist Paul Watson told CNN. “The only purpose of a vessel like that is so it can travel long distances to the Southern ...