Japan's government voiced dismay on Wednesday over the release of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson after Danish authorities refused Tokyo's extradition request. Greenland arrested the Sea Shepherd ...

Japan argues that whaling is part of its history and culture. A rigid insistence on maritime sovereignty offers a more convincing explanation for Tokyo’s stance. In this image provided by the ...

Many members of the international community consider whale-hunting a barbaric practice that should have been banned decades ago. But some countries have long viewed it as a vital commercial enterprise ...

This year’s commercial whaling season began in April with the first kills by Norway and Japan. Although Norway’s quota allows up to 1,406 minke whales in total to be killed by the 15 registered ...

Canadian-US environmentalist and anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson will not be deported to Japan to face trial for obstructing one of its whaling ships in 2010, the Danish Justice Ministry has ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The future of whaling in Japan was thrown into doubt after the International Court of Justice ruled Monday that the nation’s annual hunt in the Antarctic was not really ...

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 ...

TOKYO • With this season's research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean called off due to harassment by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Japan's whaling activities in the area may not see another ...

Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was arrested in July on a Japanese warrant - Copyright AFP/File Leiff Josefsen Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was arrested in ...