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 ...

The Japanese barely eat whale meat anymore, but that’s not stopping the country from jumping back into the commercial whaling industry in 2019. Yoshihide Suga, Japan’s chief Cabinet secretary, said ...

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 ...

Each year, Japanese whalers haul hundreds of harpooned whales aboard their giant 8,145-ton vessel, the Nisshin Maru. And for decades, they've killed most of these whales in the open Antarctic seas, ...