Japan opens whaling conference
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Japan opened an international whaling conference Tuesday by blasting a boycott by dozens of anti-whaling nations, saying their absence would block much-needed reforms of the commission that sets regulations.
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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's special peace envoy Yasushi Akashi opened talks with Sri Lankan leaders at the start of his latest mission to help revive the island's stalled peace process, officials said.
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Japan's special peace envoy Yasushi Akashi has opened talks with Sri Lankan leaders at the start of his latest mission to help revive the island's stalled peace process.
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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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Anti-whaling nations said on  Monday they oppose Japan&#39;s proposal to permit whale hunting in  its coastal communities and will push for Japanese concessions  on other issues.
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Greenland's plan to expand its whale hunt causes deadlock at an annual whaling conference in Alaska.
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Japan and North Korea begin their first formal bilateral talks in more than a year, aimed at normalising ties.
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The UN atomic watchdog opens a general conference of its 144 member states Monday, with the crisis over Iran&#39;s possibly seeking nuclear weapons getting ever more serious.
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Officials from 75 nations begin on Monday talks critical to whale conservation amid political pressure to lift a 20-year ban on commercial hunting of the gentle giants.
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The International Whaling Commission passes a resolution condemning Japan's Antarctic whale hunt.
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SYDNEY - Humane Society International opened legal proceedings in Australian Federal Courts on Tuesday against a Japanese whaling fleet that it charges has killed more than 400 minke whales within Australia&#39;s whale sanctuary over the past four years.
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Japan's coast guard said Tuesday it has sent a team of officers to protect its whaling fleet against intensifying protests by environmentalists.
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Japan's Antarctic fleet resumes whaling after anti-hunt activists are forced away by running out of fuel.
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Japan is due to again seek to wrest control of the 70-nation International Whaling Commission, which is currently preventing Tokyo resuming commercial whaling.
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Can stalemate be avoided at this year's International Whaling Commission's annual meeting?
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Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the countryâs fleet, a Japanese official said.