Tag: Japan whaling

Australian PM: Whaling spat shouldn’t be allowed to hurt Japan ties

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull expressed disappointment during a speech in Tokyo on Friday (December 18) at Japan’s resumption of whaling in the Southern Ocean, but said the dispute over the hunt should not be allowed to hurt the two countries’ special strategic ties. Japan’s whaling fleet set out for the Antarctic this month to resume a hunt for the mammals, ending a year-long hiatus following an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that Japan […]

Japan condemns anti-whaling activists over boat collision

(Reuters) — Japan condemned animal conservationist group Sea Shepherd on Monday (February 3), after the group said one of its vessels was rammed by Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean. Footage released by Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) showed a collision between activists and whalers on Sunday (February 2). ICR, the public face of Japan’s whaling program, said another video showed an inflatable boat deployed by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society dropping a rope across the bow of another of its three […]