Japan has said it intends to allow the hunting of endangered fin whales, some of the largest whales in the ocean. This decision comes as the country opens more and more vending machines selling whale ...

It can be easy to criticize a tradition from outside one’s own culture. Japan does indeed have a long history of whaling, dating back hundreds, even thousands of years. The practice built towns, fed ...

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 ...

STORY: Japan's first domestically produced whaling mothership in 70 years arrived in Tokyo on Thursday ahead of its maiden hunting expedition off the country’s northeastern coast. The Kangei Maru will ...

A captured minke whale is lifted by crane at a port in Kushiro, Japan, on July 1. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images) AFTER A hiatus of 31 years, Japan resumed commercial whale hunting on July 1, ...

For years, Japan exploited a loophole in international rules to continue hunting whales despite being a member of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) bound by the commercial whaling moratorium ...

A showdown is expected this week among pro- and anti-whaling nations at a meeting opening Monday in Morocco. Japan, and its steadfast defense of whale hunting, will be the center of attention.