Japan&#39;s compromise whaling plan dismissed at talks
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Japan offered a compromise on Monday to break an impasse over its controversial plan to lift a 20-year moratorium of commercial whale hunting but it was flatly rejected by the other key powers.
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North Korea declined a request to resume talks aimed at persuading the communist nation to abandon its nuclear weapons program, Japan&#39;s government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said.
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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.
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The International Whaling Commission holds its annual talks in Alaska next week amid pressure to end an impasse over commercial and scientific whaling threatening the conservation of the gentle giants.
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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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Australia's foreign minister held talks with Japan Thursday amid a bitter feud on whaling as the two countries tried to show that their close relationship was otherwise intact.
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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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Japan's efforts to have restrictions lifted on the trade in whalemeat are rebuffed at an international meeting.
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The International Whaling Commission has failed to resolve the increasingly heated debate over Japan's whaling program and needs to be thoroughly reformed, organizers of a conference on the dispute said Friday.
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American and Japanese negotiators have agreed to ease Japan&#39;s ban on American beef exports, brought in after a single case of mad cow disease in the US last year.
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Talks on where to build the world&#39;s first nuclear fusion reactor ended without a deal on Tuesday but the European Union said Japan and the United States no longer firmly opposed its bid to put the plant in France.
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Japan was fuming over the failure of  its bid to expand trade in whale products and Africa swapped  blows over ivory Thursday as a U.N. meeting on trade in wild  plants and animals wrapped up.
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TOKYO Japan&#39;s main news agency reports a Tokyo court has dismissed a request to stop the deportation proceedings against fugitive chess master Bobby Fischer.
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Talks on resuming US beef imports to Japan hit a new snag when Tokyo rejected Washington's proposals for determining the age of cows to be exempted from tests for mad cow disease, officials said.
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Japan and like-minded pro-whaling nations took a step toward their goal of resuming commercial whaling on Tuesday at a special meeting of the International Whaling Commission.
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Pro-whaling countries meet in Japan to plan the lifting of the global moratorium on commercial hunting.