Japan rallies whaling nations despite protests
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Japan was holding talks with dozens of countries to plot the future of the global whaling body, but most Western states boycotted the meeting as a charade aimed at resuming commercial hunting.
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Australia welcomed Saturday Japan's backdown on plans to hunt humpbacks but said it had still lodged a formal protest with Tokyo calling for an end to all whaling.
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Nearly two-thirds of Japanese people support the country's whaling, which has infuriated Western countries, but enthusiasm is waning among younger people, a poll said Friday.
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Japan said Tuesday it was pushing ahead with its controversial plan to hunt humpback whales after key powers   refused a compromise offer and despite warnings by Australia and New Zealand it would be a &quot;provocative act.&quot;
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A special meeting of the global whaling body called by Japan  is boycotted by most anti-whaling nations.
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Australia accused Japan Sunday of a &quot;dummy-spit&quot; -- a childish tantrum -- over its failure to lift the ban on commercial whaling at an international conference last week.
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A Japanese whaling ship on Thursday handed over to an Australian customs vessel two anti-whaling activists who climbed aboard two days earlier in protest, Japan's Fisheries Agency said.
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Japan fails to ease an international ban on commercial whaling, leading it to warn it may leave the IWC.
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A high-seas standoff between Japanese whalers and militant anti-whaling activists in the icy waters of the Antarctic drew the governments of Australia and Japan into the fray Wednesday.
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Pro-whaling countries meet in Japan to plan the lifting of the global moratorium on commercial hunting.
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Anti-whaling nations New Zealand and Australia vowed Thursday to continue the fight to end Japan's annual whale hunts, warning that its plans to kill humpback whales off Antarctica in December could spark outrage. The warning comes just a day after Japan ended its latest southern whale program following a deadly fire that crippled the mother ship of its whaling fleet and left it drifting near the Antarctic coast. A crewman died in the fire.
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An animal rights group claimed Tuesday Japan has illegally killed hundreds of whales in an Australian whale sanctuary and launched legal action aimed at stopping the hunt.
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An international animal welfare group vowed to pursue a lawsuit accusing Japanese whalers of killing hundreds of whales within an Australian sanctuary despite Canberra's own reluctance.
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A meeting called by Japan to plan the end of the whaling moratorium is boycotted by most anti-whaling nations.
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Nearly two-thirds of Japanese support the country's much-criticized whaling program, a poll showed Friday, reflecting growing sentiment in the country that the international anti-whaling campaign is fueled by Western cultural bias.
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Japan is confident it can secure the votes needed to resume commercial trade in whale products and that this would be a step toward lifting a ban on hunting the marine giants, a Japanese official said Wednesday.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A Japanese whaling ship crippled by fire drifted off the world's largest penguin breeding grounds today, and New Zealand alerted other countries it may need help if the vessel leaked oil into the pristine Antarctic waters.