The main goal of their whaling fleet is research, but the whales that are killed for research programs are butchered and sold ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--The aging Nisshin Maru, a relic of Japan’s whaling tradition, has finally retired after playing a central role in research and commercial operations for more ...

A small fleet of whaling vessels have caught their first whales in Japan's first commercial hunt in decades, in defiance of international criticism. The whaling ships have a permit to catch 227 ...

A report sent to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) reveals hunters caught 333 minkes in total. The team left Japan in November 2017 for the Southern Ocean and returned in March 2018.

Japan’s whaling has long been a source of controversy and criticism from conservationists. But anti-whaling protests have largely subsided after Japan switched from much-criticized Antarctic ...