TOKYO, March 23 (Reuters) - Japan's main whaling ship was set to limp into port on Friday with a haul of 508 whales after cutting short its Antarctic whaling hunt due to a fire last month that killed ...

TOKYO — Japan has asked Denmark to extradite anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, who has been in custody in Greenland since his arrest last month under a Japanese warrant, officials said Friday. Watson ...

Whaling ships set sail on Monday from Japan as the country resumed commercial hunts for the first time in decades after withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission. Japan whaling ships set ...

(Repeats to clarify headline garble) By Elaine Lies TOKYO, March 29 (Reuters) - Barring Greenpeace's anti-whaling ship Esperanza from docking in Tokyo violates free speech and suggests that Japan may ...

He faces charges of interfering with a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic Ocean in 2010. The arrest is believed to be related to a Red Notice issued for Captain Watson’s 2010 anti-whaling ...

Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was arrested in July on a Japanese warrant - Copyright AFP/File Leiff Josefsen Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was arrested in ...

TOKYO • With this season's research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean called off due to harassment by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Japan's whaling activities in the area may not see another ...

FILE - Paul Watson, then founder and President of the animal rights and environmental Sea Shepherd Conservation, attends a demonstration against the Costa Rican government near Germany's President ...

SEATTLE (AP) – A U.S. appeals court ordered American anti-whaling activists to keep 500 yards away from Japanese whaling ships off Antarctica. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an ...

They’re baaaaaaaccck. Whale hunting season kicked off in Japan last week as three ships set off with a security vessel on their annual pilgrimage to cull hundreds of minke and fin whales in Antarctic ...

FILE - Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, founder of the Oregon-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, is sworn in before testifying during a contempt of court hearing in federal court, on Nov. 6, ...