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In an interesting change of policy, the Japanese police have finally gotten around to putting out arrest warrants for three environmental activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, for their interference in a whale “research” hunt back in...
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Japanese police are pursuing arrest warrants against three activists from the U.S.-based animal rights group Sea Shepherd for allegedly attacking Japanese whaling ships...
made popular Aug 18 2008
AP, Tacoma
Five Makah Indian whalers who killed a gray whale during an illegal hunt last September have been sentenced in federal court. The sentences include jail time for two...
made popular Jul 1 2008
AP, Santiago
The International Whaling Commission ended its annual conference on Friday, leaving all the tough work on expanding or restricting whale hunting still ahead of it.The...
made popular Jun 27 2008
Commercial whalehunt is likely to exist in Japan in the name of scientific whalehunt. The Japanese government has shown no indication of any sort of ban on the annual...
made popular Jun 24 2008
Whaling, environmentalists contend, if allowed to continue, will change the ecology forever. They believe that unrestrained whaling has led to unsustainable whaling...
made popular Jun 24 2008
AP, Reykjavik
Whale hunting season began in Iceland on Tuesday as the country’s first whaling ship of the year set sail in defiance of a worldwide moratorium on the...
made popular May 20 2008
AP, Tokyo
Violent clashes with animal rights groups and fewer whale sightings forced Japan’s whaling fleet to head home from the Antarctic with only 55 percent of its...
made popular Apr 14 2008
The vast majority of Australians I have talked to about Japanese whaling agree with me that it is unnecessary and barbaric. Japanese “scientific” whaling...
made popular Mar 17 2008
AP, Sydney
Activists who have clashed violently with Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters in recent months were headed back to port Tuesday because they were running out of...
made popular Mar 11 2008
AP, London
The International Whaling Commission criticized environmental activists protesting Japan’s whaling fleet, accusing them Saturday of threatening safety at sea.The...
made popular Mar 8 2008
AP, Tokyo
The Japanese coast guard said Friday that anti-whaling activists threw rotten butter and other objects at a Japanese whale-processing ship, the latest high seas clash...
made popular Mar 7 2008
AP, Tokyo
Anti-whaling activists hurled containers of rotten butter at a Japanese whaling ship in Antarctic waters Monday, lightly injuring several crewmembers, Japan’s...
made popular Mar 3 2008
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Nearly two-thirds of Japanese support the country’s much-criticized whaling program, a poll showed Friday, reflecting growing sentiment in the country that the...
made popular Feb 8 2008
AP, Tokyo
Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the country’s fleet, a Japanese official...
made popular Feb 6 2008
Whaling is the illegal practice of whale hunting for commercial purposes. The practice is prevalent since the 16th century and was condemned and declared illegal after...
made popular Feb 2 2008
Militant anti-whaling campaigners vowed more confrontations with Japan’s whaling fleet near Antarctica on Friday, while the whalers aimed to exhaust the protest...
made popular Jan 18 2008
AP, Tokyo
Protesters scored a victory in a high-seas campaign to disrupt Japan’s whale hunt in the Antarctic, forcing the fleet to a standstill Wednesday while officials...
made popular Jan 16 2008
AP, Tokyo
Japan’s whaling fleet in the Antarctic halted its operations Wednesday and scrambled to arrange the turnover of two activists who boarded one of its harpoon ships...
made popular Jan 16 2008
AP, Sydney
A Greenpeace ship on Saturday confronted a Japanese whaling fleet that had initially planned to hunt protected humpbacks, the environmentalists said _ setting off the...
made popular Jan 12 2008
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Whaling is the illegal practice of whale hunting for commercial purposes. The practice is prevalent since the 16th century and was condemned and declared illegal after...
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