Japan has launched a brand new whaling fleet mother ship, the Kangei Maru, which can be anticipated will mean renewed frequent clashes with environmental groups that are also acquiring a new ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture—Japan’s new whaling mothership ... president of Kyodo Senpaku Co., the whaling company that owns the ship, during the ship’s departure ceremony.

Japan currently has just one fleet that operates on the high seas, comprising a mother ship and three smaller vessels. It also has five coastal whaling ships. In 2023, the total haul was 83 Minke ...

and are angry the industry has used tax money for a costly product largely unpopular with customers Sea trials have begun of the first dedicated whaling mother ship to be built in Japan in 73 ...

Japan withdrew from the IWC in 2019 and resumed ... such as being able to process whale carcasses indoors. “No other whaling ship in the world is as large and state-of-the-art as this one ...

Activists believe that in building the new ship, Japan intends to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean, but the company operating the vessel has denied this. - 'Inhumane treatment' - Watson's ...

Japanese whaling ship has caught fire near Antarctica, leaving one crew member missing and raising fears of environmental damage. The blaze on board the Nisshin Maru prompted the evacuation of its ...

It seems that a Japanese whaling ship is currently adrift and on fire near the South Pole. According to New Zealand, there is a danger to some 250,000 pairs of breeding penguins and other local ...

Despite enduring five months of imprisonment in 2024, environmental activist Paul Watson remains more determined than ever to combat illegal whaling. Recently granted honorary citizenship by the ...

Japan’s whaling fleet is already sailing towards a summer slaughter in the icy waters off Antarctica. Meyerson is captain of the Ocean Warrior, the newest and fastest ship the anti-whaling ...

After that they sold it to the Japanese, who didn't use the ship ... and my memories – and started painting scenes of whaling ships. I've donated paintings to several whaling museums in the ...

As whaling ships became faster (with the advent of steam vessels ... the United States, Norway, the Netherlands, Japan, Germany, and the Soviet Union, but whalers from Australia and Brazil also had a ...