As the crisis arrives to the outskirts of Tokyo, official policy aims to ease strict restrictions on firearm use, and promote ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a move that has shocked conservationists, Japan has announced plans to allow the hunting of endangered fin whales. Japan has ...

Fin whales are some of the largest whales in the ocean. These massive whales were among the most popular targets for whalers up until the last century, when fin whales were listed as an endangered ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wearing a toy whale hat, whale tie and a whale motif shirt, Hideki Tokoro spends much of his days thinking about the world’s ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will add large fin whales to its list of commercial whaling species, government spokesperson Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Thursday, five years after leaving an international body ...

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 ...

“Japan has never given up on its whaling ambitions,” veteran anti-whaling activist Paul Watson told CNN. “The only purpose of a vessel like that is so it can travel long distances to the Southern ...