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 ...

TOKYO — Meat from fin whales caught for the first time in nearly 50 years off Japan’s northern coast fetched up to more than $1,300 per kilo at auction Thursday, as officials try to keep the ...

Japan has killed its first fin whale in years, despite most of the world strongly opposing the decision. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Japan just announced that it killed its first fin whale in years. The ...

Fin whales are some of the largest whales in the ocean. These massive whales were among the most popular targets for whalers up until the last century, when fin whales were listed as an endangered ...

Hong Kong/Tokyo (CNN) — 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 ...

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 — As diners sit down to lunches of whale meat in Tokyo and elsewhere across the nation, Japan's whaling fleet is on its annual hunt in the Antarctic, drawing protests from environmental groups, ...

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 ...

The media spotlight has been hovering over The Hague in the past week as Australia made its case against Japan's scientific whaling practices, accusing Japan of trying to "cloak its ongoing commercial ...

Washington, DC—Today, Japan and Iceland decided to allow each country’s last remaining whale companies to hunt fin whales, the second largest animal on the planet. Adopting the recommendations of a ...