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 ...

An anti-whaling group patrolling the Ross Sea off Antarctica is offering a 25.000 US dollars reward to any person or group that can provide coordinates of the Japanese whaling fleet operating in ...

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 ...

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 whaling underwent some dramatic changes in 2019 ... and for decades has relied on massive government grants and subsidies to keep the fleet operational. Whaling’s ongoing dependence on ...

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 ...