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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Japan has opened a conference to rally support among countries that support its bid to resume commercial whaling but it was boycotted by most Western countries.
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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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Japan has resumed its annual whale hunt in waters near Antarctica now that anti-whaling activists have stopped pursuing the country's fleet, a Japanese official said Wednesday.
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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin has  offered new talks to resolve the fate of four rocky islands  seized from Japan in the closing days of World War Two,  prompting Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to consider a  visit to Moscow.
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The militant environmental group Sea Shepherd said Monday that it had located the Japanese whaling fleet near Antarctica and threatened to ram them if they resumed slaughtering the giant sea creatures.
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New Zealand demanded Friday that Japan explain why its oil-laden whaling ship has not yet been moved away from the pristine Antarctic coast eight days after being crippled by fire.
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Japan offers to help build one for the Indian Ocean.
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The International Whaling Commission (IWC) debated Wednesday Japan&#39;s bid to overturn a two-decade moratorium on commercial whaling, which is expected to fail and worsen a split in the already polarized 75-nation organization.
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Japan said Wednesday that the International Whaling Commission should allow four of its coastal communities to hunt minke whales because the tradition is so old that it qualifies as subsistence hunting.
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Ice threatened to trap a damaged  Japanese whaling ship stranded off Antarctica, anti-whaling  activists said on Monday, raising fears of an environmental  disaster close to a major penguin colony.
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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 and the U.S. will hold a two-day technical meeting on U.S. beef imports, officials said Monday, amid expectations the talks may pave the way for easing Japan's strict import restrictions.
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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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Japan said Thursday it has made no agreement to stop hunting humpback whales, denying comments from the US ambassador here that suggested a temporary deal had been struck.
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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.