(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 […]