Japan suspended its hunt for one season to retool its whaling program with measures such as cutting the number of whales and species targeted, but resumed hunting in the 2015-2016 season, capping ...

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 them. He wants to hunt them ...

Japan announced Wednesday that it is leaving the regulatory body to resume commercial whaling for the first time in 30 years, but said it would no longer hunt the creatures in the Antarctic.

KUSHIRO — A small Japanese fleet caught their first whales on Monday in Japan’s first commercial hunt in more than three decades, a move that has aroused global condemnation and fears for the fate of ...

Japan plans to add large fin whales to its commercial hunting list almost five years after it resumed whaling along its coast. The Fumio Kishida government supports the sustainable hunting of large ...

Japan’s hunt is the largest: between 1987 and 2014, it’s killed some 10,000 minke whales in Antarctic waters.

Japan had argued that Australia’s suit was an attempt to force its cultural norms on Japan, equivalent to Hindus demanding an international ban on killing cows. Though consumption of whale meat ...

Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd published images on Sunday (January 15) of a dead minke whale, which appeared to have been punctured by a harpoon, on the deck of the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin ...

Japan dispatched its whaling fleet last month to the southern Pacific in the first major hunt of humpback whales since the 1960s, generating widespread criticism.

Canned whale meat is displayed inside one of the machines of a vending machine shop, opened by a Japanese whale-hunting company in Yokohama, Japan, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023.

The United States, which chairs the International Whaling Commission, recently held several rounds of talks with Japan to seek a one- to two-year suspension of the humpback hunt.