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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO – TOKYO (AP) — "The Cove," an Oscar-winning film about a dolphin-hunting village in Japan, will be shown in the country from next month, despite pressure from nationalist groups that caused ...

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, ...

A defiant Japan has embarked on its largest whaling expedition in modern time. And for the first time in decades, this one is targeting the majestic humpback whale. There was a festive sendoff for the ...