These three countries alone are suspected of killing nearly 45,000 whales since 1986, when commercial whaling was banned.

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was established in 1946 to prevent the collapse of several species that had been hunted to near extinction over the preceding centuries. In 1986, after long ...

The media spotlight has been hovering over The Hague in the past week as Australia made its case against Japan's scientific whaling practices, accusing Japan of trying to "cloak its ongoing commercial ...

TOKYO -- Japan announced Wednesday that it is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial hunts for the animals for the first time in 30 years, but said it would no longer go to ...

KUSHIRO, Japan (Reuters) - Japanese whaling ships prepared on Sunday to set to sea, with crews gathering on decks in a northern port a day ahead of Japan's first commercial whaling hunt in more than ...

PARIS (AP) — Interpol said Tuesday it was removing a most-wanted designation for anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson, who is sought by Japan over an encounter with a whaling ship and who was jailed ...

An international court has ordered Japan to revoke whaling permits in the Antarctic and stop granting new ones. The country's government had argued that hunting whales was part of a research program, ...

LONDON (AP) — Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was freed from prison in Greenland on Tuesday after five months in custody, and will not be extradited to Japan where he is wanted on charges of ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan said Friday it aims to resume whale hunts in the Antarctic later this year, even though the International Whaling Commission says Tokyo hasn’t proven that the mammals need to be ...

As Japan’s whaling fleet set sail this week for its latest expedition to the Southern Ocean, anti-whaling militants Sea Shepherd Conservation Society had already struck a propaganda blow by naming ...