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Japan under pressure over past hunting of endangered whales

A small Japanese fleet caught its first whales yesterday as Japan officially resumed its commercial whale hunts after more than three decades. In Kushiro, a gritty port city on the northern-most main island of Hokkaido, five whaling ships were waved

Japanese fleet catches whale on first day out

Ships preparing to set sail today from Kushiro port in Hokkaido as Japan resumes commercial whaling for the first time in more than 30 years. The country withdrew from the International Whaling Commission last year.

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Greenpeace photo showing Japanese whalers injuring a whale with a harpoon in the Southern Ocean in January 2006. It took three more shots to finally kill the injured whale. Come July, Japan will no longer hunt whales in the Antarctic, but will resume

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