Japan hints at major whaling deal
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Japan hints it may be open to significant compromise as an annual international whaling conference opens in Alaska.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Friday urged calm in a bitter dispute on whaling with Australia, which voiced disappointment as whalers resumed their controversial Antarctic hunt.
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Japan is dropping its plan to kill humpback whales in the seas off Antarctica, the countryâs top government spokesman said.
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Japan failed in its bid Thursday to lift a moratorium on commercial whaling at the end of a stormy annual meeting of the 75-nation International Whaling Commission (IWC) and warned it might pull out of the organization.
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Anti-whaling activists hunted a Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean on Tuesday, intent on ramming its flagship, as pro-whaling nations met in Tokyo to push for a return to commercial fishing of the giant creatures.
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REYKJAVIK, Sep 14 (IPS) - Commercial whaling may start in Iceland again if  the owner of the Hvalur boats has his way.
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Can stalemate be avoided at this year's International Whaling Commission's annual meeting?
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A Japanese whaling ship left crippled by fire could turn into an environmental disaster as the vessel drifts near one of the world's largest penguin breeding grounds on the Antarctic coast, officials warned Thursday.
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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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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 has pledged to keep whaling as its troubled fleet headed home early from Antarctic waters, while opponents exulted at the pullout and vowed to ramp up pressure against the hunt.
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New Zealand demanded an explanation from Japan why a crippled whaling ship remained in Antarctic waters posing a potential environmental threat.
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Japan threatened to quit the  International Whaling Commission on Thursday after fierce  opposition from anti-whaling nations forced it to scrap a  proposal to allow four coastal villages to hunt the animals.
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Japan offers to help build one for the Indian Ocean.
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Pro-whaling nations, led by Japan, lost the first major vote of the International Whaling Commission&#039;s annual meeting Friday &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 fails to ease an international ban on commercial whaling, leading it to warn it may leave the IWC.
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Trade talks on lifting the Japanese ban on US beef ended in Tokyo Saturday with some progress and pledges to talk again. A source close to the talks said the two sides reached