Japan turns down Greenpeace help on whaling ship
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Japan has turned down an offer from  Greenpeace to tow a whaling ship that caught fire off the  Antarctic coast, recalling that activists of the conservation  group had boarded the same vessel almost a decade ago.
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Greenpeace said Monday it has disrupted the Japanese whale hunt off Antarctica by chasing the fleet's whale processing factory ship out of the whaling zone.
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By Kathy Marks Asia-Pacific Correspondent  There are fears of an environmental disaster in the unspoilt waters off Antarctica after fire broke out on board a Japanese whaling ship, leaving it adrift near penguin breeding grounds.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced on Tuesday that Tokyo would not support the idea to solve the problem of southern Kuril Islands and peace treaty with Moscow by getting just two islands, Shikotan and Habomai.
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A UN meeting has harpooned a Japanese bid to ease curbs on trade in whale products, but a defiant Tokyo accused the West of &quot;cultural imperialism&quot; and vowed to press efforts to expand whaling.
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Japan has abandoned whale hunting in the  Antarctic for this season after its main whaling ship was  crippled by a fire two weeks ago, the Fisheries Agency said on  Wednesday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Anti-whaling nations said on Monday they oppose Japan's proposal to permit whale hunting in its coastal communities and will push for Japanese concessions on other issues.
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A militant anti-whaling group trying to stop Japanese hunters in the icy Southern Ocean on Sunday accused rival Greenpeace of "ocean posing" after it refused to hand over the coordinates of the fleet.
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Japan condemns anti-whaling activists who dropped acid onto the deck of a whaling ship in the Antarctic.
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A Japanese whaling ship has begun moving away from Antarctica under its own power, an official said Sunday &#151; 10 days after a fire left it crippled and laden with fuel near the world's biggest penguin breeding ground.
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New Zealand demanded Friday that Japan explain why its oil-laden whaling ship has not yet been moved away from the pristine Antarctic coast eight days after being crippled by fire.
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A special meeting of the global whaling body called by Japan  is boycotted by most anti-whaling nations.   to plan the lifting of the global moratorium on commercial hunting.
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Activists withdrew a threat to ram a  Japanese whaling fleet in the frigid Southern Ocean on Tuesday,  while in Tokyo pro-whaling nations met to push for a return to  commercial fishing of the giant creatures.
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Japan has abandoned whale hunting in the Antarctic for this season after its main whaling ship was crippled by a fire two weeks ago, the Fisheries Agency said on Wednesday.
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A controversial plan to hunt endangered humpback whales has been dropped, a top Japan official says.
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A Greenpeace ship on Saturday confronted a Japanese whaling fleet that had initially planned to hunt protected humpbacks, the environmentalists said Â setting off the latest round of cat-and-mouse in a sometimes dangerous feature of the hunting debate.
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The government's plans to build a new generation of nuclear power plants have been dealt an embarrassing blow by a court ruling in favour of environmental group Greenpeace.