SEATTLE, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Japan appears to be using Australian humpbacks as a bargaining chip in negotiations, International Whaling Commission officials say.
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 19 (UPI) -- Japan has failed to convince the International Whaling Commission to let it hunt in Japanese coastal waters this year, whaling officials said.
TOKYO, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Japan is threatening to break with the International Whaling Commission if it is not allowed to kill whales off its own shores.
INNOSHIMA, Japan, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A Japanese whaling ship has left harbor and is heading for Antarctic waters to participate in the controversial summer whale hunt, officials said.
TOKYO, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Anti-whaling activists chased Japanese ships in Antarctic waters and the crew of one Japanese vessel held two protesters who jumped aboard.
SYDNEY, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The captain of a Japanese whaling ship has reportedly agreed to release two anti-whaling activists being held on the vessel in Antarctic waters.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Two political parties have urged the government of New Zealand to get involved in trying to stop Japanese whaling in the Antarctic.
TOKYO, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Japanese government officials say their nation's whaling fleet is operating only for research purposes, in accordance with international rules.
TOKYO, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Japan has asked the Netherlands to stop Greenpeace's battles with Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters after an activists' boat collided with a whaling ship. "We have asked the Netherlands to stop the pirate-like, dangerous activities by Greenpeace, as th
TOKYO, July 19 (UPI) -- Japan wants to kill about 3,000 Antarctic minke whales and has asked the International Whaling Commission to reinstitute commercial hunting of whales.
