Two Japanese whale hunting boats have returned to port with their first catch after resuming commercial whaling for the first time in 31 years. As a fleet of five boats left port early on Monday, whalers, their families and local officials in two major whaling towns, Shimonoseki in southwestern Japan and Kushiro in the north, […]
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POLL: Should Japan be sanctioned for resuming commercial whaling?
On Monday morning, after a short ceremony to pray for a bountiful catch and safety at sea, five ships will slip out of a port in northern Japan to hunt whales for profit for the first time in more than 30 years. They will not head to the southern ocean, the controversial hunting ground for […]
Petition: Save the Japanese Dugong From Extinction!
Similar to seismic mapping, which deafens and kills marine mammals such as whales and dolphins who rely on sound to find food and each other, the United States now plans on harming hundreds of endangered species. In agreement with the Japanese government, the US plans to relocate a military base within Okinawa. Most voters opposed […]
POLL: Should Japan be sanctioned for continuing to slaughter whales?
Japan’s whaling fleet arrived back at the port of Shimonoseki on the weekend with a barbaric tally of 333 dead whales that are no longer swimming freely in the Southern Ocean. If the work of the Japanese whalers is anything like last year, more than 100 pregnant females and 50 or so juveniles will have […]
Taiji’s Cruel Dolphin Drives Are Causing Far More Suffering Than We Thought
When the award-winning documentary The Cove was released in 2009, it brought the horrors taking place in the small coastal town of Taiji, Japan to a global audience and ignited international outrage as people learned about the brutal drive hunts and mass slaughter of dolphins every year. Tragically, while these hunts have faced widespread condemnation […]
Activists Bring Legal Challenge Against Japanese Dolphin Slaughter
A first-of-its-kind lawsuit filed in Japan will attempt to stop the horrific annual dolphin slaughter that was the subject of the 2009 Academy Award winning documentary “The Cove.” The UK organization Action for Dolphins and Japan’s Life Investigation Agency filed the lawsuit on February 13, 2019. And the groups are taking a new approach: using […]
POLL: Should Japan be sanctioned for continuing the bloody slaughter of dolphins?
Animal rights activists have launched an unprecedented legal challenge to the slaughter of dolphins in Japan, claiming that fishermen are routinely violating animal welfare laws and exceeding government-set quotas. The London-based organisation Action for Dolphins and the Japanese NGO Life Investigation Agency on Wednesday submitted evidence they hope will halt the annual dolphin hunts in […]
POLL: Should Japan be sanctioned for continuing commercial whaling?
Japan is to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and resume commercial whaling next year, a report claimed on Thursday, in a move that drew condemnation from Australia, with other anti-whaling nations expected to follow suit. Japan will inform the IWC of its decision by the end of the year, Kyodo news agency said, […]
