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 ...

The answer apparently is yes, according to a new report that highlights the huge cost to the Japanese taxpayer of sustaining its whaling fleet. Without government subsidies, the industry would ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japan set a combined catch quota of 379 for the three other whale species — minke, Bryde’s and sei whales. The country’s only large-scale whaling fleet operator Kyodo Senpaku Co. launched ...

TOKYO, Japan (CNN)-- Anti-whaling groups have claimed partial victory in their attempts to disrupt Japan's annual whale hunt in Antarctic waters. Dogged by Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd Conservation ...

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 ...

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 ...