Whale meeting condemns Japan hunt
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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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Tribal leaders have denounced the killing of a gray whale and sent representatives to Washington to assure the stateâs politicians that the hunt was not approved.
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A resolution urging Japan to suspend the &quot;lethal aspects&quot; of its scientific whaling program was adopted Wednesday at global talks here but prompted an unprecedented boycott of the vote.
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Japan urged Australia Tuesday to take legal action against two anti-whaling protestors who climbed aboard a Japanese whaler in Antarctic seas last week, a foreign ministry statement said.
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Australia welcomed Saturday Japan's backdown on plans to hunt humpbacks but said it had still lodged a formal protest with Tokyo calling for an end to all whaling.
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The polarized International Whaling Commission wraps up another stormy annual meeting Thursday as it considers Japan&#39;s bid to lift a ban to allow coastal communities to hunt whales.
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As activists clash with Japanese whalers on their Antarctic hunt, other anti-whaling campaigners are doing the once unthinkable -- getting out chopsticks and tasting whale meat.
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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 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 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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New Zealand's prime minister warned Japanese whalers Monday they would face international condemnation if their crippled ship caused an environmental disaster on the Antarctic coast.
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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&#39;s proposal to legitimize hunting of minke whale was rejected on Tuesday by a world wildlife protection meeting. The proposal was dropped with 67 votes against, 55 support
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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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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 "temporarily halted" its much-criticized plan for a humpback whale hunt in the seas near Antarctica, said the chief Japanese government spokesman on Friday.