Japan urges legal action against anti-whaling activists: ministry
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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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Japan failed in its bid Thursday to lift a moratorium on commercial whaling after stormy annual talks of the 75-nation International Whaling Commission (IWC) and warned it might pull out of the organization.
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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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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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Japan said Friday it would be difficult to resolve a growing row with Australia over whaling as the issue was a cultural clash between the two countries.
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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.
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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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Japan said on Friday it would urge North  Korea to reinvestigate the fate of Japanese citizens abducted  decades ago, and threatened to take "harsh" action unless the  reclusive communist state responded "sincerely."
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New Zealand has pressed Japan to prevent a stricken whaler from polluting Antarctic waters by accepting an embarrassing offer of help from a Greenpeace anti-whaling protest ship.
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Japan says it will file a protest with the Chinese government after one of its submarines intruded into Japanese territorial waters.
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Militant environmental activists on Saturday vowed to increase their presence in the Southern Ocean next year in their bid to prevent Japanese whalers from killing the giant mammals.
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ANIMAL rights campaigners today claimed Japan has illegally killed hundreds of whales in an Australian sanctuary, and launched legal action aimed at stopping the hunt.
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Japan expressed outrage on Friday after anti-whaling activists poured acid on the decks of a whaling ship in the Southern Ocean and slightly injured two crew members, terming their activities "piratical, terrorist acts".
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Anti-whaling protesters lost in the Southern Ocean on Friday after a clash with a Japanese whaling ship tied their damaged boat to an iceberg for protection from icy winds as they drifted in fog, media reported.
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Japan clashed with  anti-whaling nations on Wednesday over its proposal to allow  four of its small coastal communities to hunt whales.
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A UN meeting has harpooned a Japanese bid to ease curbs on trade in whale products, but a defiant Tokyo accused the West of &quot;cultural imperialism&quot; and vowed to press efforts to expand whaling.
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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.