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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DOWNTOWN — Banned meat from whales killed as part of Japan’s controversial “scientific” hunt was served at The Hump and an upscale sushi restaurant in Seoul, South Korean, according to a DNA analysis ...

Japan’s whaling fleet hunted and killed more than 300 minke whales during what it called its “annual research expedition.” Ignoring a global moratorium on whale hunting, the Japanese whaling fleet ...

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 ...

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 ...

(AP) Japan will target fewer whales when its Pacific hunt begins next week and will observe them in the Antarctic next season with the aim of resuming full-fledged commercial whaling, the fisheries ...

The U.N.'s International Court of Justice ruled on Monday that Japan needs to stop its controversial and not-really-well-liked whale hunting practices. The court wasn't convinced that Japan's ...