In the 1970s, a small group of Greenpeace activists had a unique idea for how they could put an end to commercial whaling.

Among the opponents were Norway, one of the three countries that still engage in commercial whaling, along with Iceland and Japan. Iceland abstained, while Japan left the IWC in 2019. Petter Meier ...

The food security proposal, in turn, was submitted by a host of African countries which also have no whaling tradition but are allies of Japan, according to NGOs. Japan is one of three countries to ...

Japan's push to have activist Paul Watson extradited from Greenland is a law-enforcement issue and nothing to do with whaling, Japan's new foreign minister said Friday in rare public comments on the ...

Congress banned all other American whaling with the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 — though whales are still hunted by Japan, Iceland and several Nordic countries, their meat considered a ...