Built at a cost of US$ 47 million, the 9,300-ton Kangei Maru has a slipway to haul up to 70- ton fin whales, and can store up to 600 tons of meat. Japan has launched a brand new whaling fleet ...

Watson's vessel was preparing for a voyage to the Pacific to disrupt the Japanese whaling fleet. Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi insisted the country will continue trying to ...

Japan’s Fisheries Agency said on Monday ships from the country’s whaling fleet returned to port from the Antarctic Ocean with a lower catch than planned after being harassed by anti-whaling ...

The Japanese whaling fleet caught 551 minke whales -- more than a third less than its goal of 850. "This year's mission was disrupted intensively by Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd, who use violent ...

Recently released video footage supports the Sea Shepherd's claim that the Japanese whaling fleet has taken aggressive action against one of its ships. The video below from Russia Today shows how ...

Japan currently has just one fleet that operates on the high seas, comprising a mother ship and three smaller vessels. It also has five coastal whaling ships. In 2023, the total haul was 83 Minke ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture—Japan’s new whaling mothership ... The hunting of fin whales requires a fleet of vessels led by the whaling mothership, which makes Kyodo Senpaku the only ...

Greenpeace says the Nisshin Maru is the factory ship of the Fisheries Agency of Japan's whaling fleet. No one was injured in Sunday's incident, though Greenpeace said its ship was "battered and ...

mainly by the Japanese whaling fleet. But, the global organization says that, scientific whaling is nothing more than an instrument of profit and politics to circumvent the moratorium, as modern, non ...

This first painting is the Southern Venturer at Leith Harbour Whaling Station in November ... After that they sold it to the Japanese, who didn't use the ship itself — just the quota for whales ...

Japan's government voiced dismay on Wednesday over the release of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson ... to butcher the several hundred whales that its fleet catches every year and store the ...

Japan has requested that Denmark extradite the founder of the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society after he was recently arrested in Greenland. Japan has issued an international ...