Built at a cost of US$ 47 million, the 9,300-ton Kangei Maru has a slipway to haul up to 70- ton fin whales, and can store up to 600 tons of meat. Japan has launched a brand new whaling fleet ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture—Japan’s new whaling mothership ... The hunting of fin whales requires a fleet of vessels led by the whaling mothership, which makes Kyodo Senpaku the only ...

Japan currently has just one fleet that operates on the high seas, comprising a mother ship and three smaller vessels. It also has five coastal whaling ships. In 2023, the total haul was 83 Minke ...

A small fleet of whaling vessels have caught their first whales in Japan's first commercial hunt in decades, in defiance of international criticism. The whaling ships have a permit to catch 227 ...

In 2023 alone, Japan's whaling fleet killed nearly 300 whales, with authorities setting a 2024 target of 200. The notion of whaling as a cultural tradition took on new symbolism after World War II ...

The legalities of hunting whales Despite an international moratorium on whaling since 1985, Japan's fleet sails to the Antarctic in the autumn or winter each year, returning the following spring.

Japan’s largest whaling company is banking ... to serve as the mother ship in Kyodo Senpaku’s whaling fleet. Whales captured by catcher boats are dissected and preserved on board the ship.

Japan is one of the few countries worldwide that still hunts whales today. The main goal of their whaling fleet is research, ...

This first painting is the Southern Venturer at Leith Harbour Whaling Station in November ... After that they sold it to the Japanese, who didn't use the ship itself — just the quota for whales ...

Japan's government voiced dismay on Wednesday over the release of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson ... to butcher the several hundred whales that its fleet catches every year and store the ...