Young Japanese lose interest in whaling
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Hiroshi Kobayashi has been hunting whales for three years now. He knows just where to look, and boasts that, in season, he has a close-to-perfect record of finding them. But he's never killed one &#151; he captains a whale-watching boat for tourists. And he thinks whaling is, or should be, a thing of the past.
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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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A meeting called by Japan to plan the end of the whaling moratorium is boycotted by most anti-whaling nations.
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Pro-whaling nations, led by Japan, lost two key votes Friday at the International Whaling Commission&#039;s annual meeting &amp;#151; an indication they may not have the majority necessary to take control of the body and try to repeal its ban on commercial hunting.
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Most Japanese are disappointed with the six-way deal on North Korea's nuclear programme and an overwhelming majority back the government's refusal to fund it, according to a survey.
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Australia's Federal Court on Tuesday ordered Japan to stop hunting and killing whales anywhere around its coastline or off Australian Antarctic territory.
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New Zealand has pressed Japan to move a crippled and burning whaling ship away from the Antarctic coast, fearing an ecological disaster if it remains there.
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Japan has held 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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A Greenpeace vessel trying to disrupt Japan's annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica has run low on fuel and is returning to port, the group said.
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The United States and Japan may be  on opposite sides of the whaling debate but they have a common aim -- gaining support for whale hunting by their indigenous and coastal communities.
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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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Japan was warned Friday it risks international anger if it includes endangered humpbacks in its annual whale cull, after threatening to pull out of the 75-nation International Whaling Commission.
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Japan is dropping its much-criticized plan to kill protected humpback whales in the seas off Antarctica, a media report said Friday.
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Japan has dropped its plan to kill humpback whales in Antarctic waters after strong protests led by Australia, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said Friday.
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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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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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A U.N. meeting harpooned a Japanese bid  Tuesday to ease curbs on trade in whale products, but a defiant  Tokyo accused the West of "cultural imperialism" and vowed to  press efforts to expand whaling.