Nisshin Maru
Follow news about the Japanese government's whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru. A fire onboard the ship in early 2007 risked a potential oil spill. Greenpeace came to the ships aid.
Whaling in Japan -- Power, Politics and Diplomacy by Jun Morikawa, Columbia UP '09, 170 pages, ISBN #0231701187. Index, bibliography, source notes, nine appendices, b&w images sprinkled through text. Those who feel Congress's dog-eat-dog debate over health care reform is about as contentious an issue as possible in a democratic...
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AFP - Militant anti-whaling activists said they were dodging a Japanese surveillance ship in icebergs near Antarctica on Wednesday, following their first skirmish with whalers during the annual hunt.
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- Activists dodge Japan whaling fleet after skirmish (france24.com)
whaling+ (AP) - SYDNEY, Dec. 16 (Kyodo)(EDS: FIXES TYPO IN HEADLINE) Australia should begin legal action against Japan's whaling program immediately and must ensure any free-trade agreement betw...
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Tokyo - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama told his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd Tuesday to make an "appropriate" response to anti-whaling activists' interference with Japan's annual hunt. La...
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AUSTRALIA will exhaust all diplomatic efforts to stop Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean before resorting to legal action, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith says. Mr Smith said whaling would inevita...
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From The Times:
Japanese sailors in the Antarctic Southern Ocean fired water cannons at self-styled environmental “pirates”, in the annual high-risk struggle over Tokyo’s controversial whale hunt.
Sea Shepherd, the radical environment group which in the past has engaged in violent clashes with the whaling fleet, reported that it was fired upon with water cannons mounted on the Shonan Maru No 2, a ship which is part of the Japanese whaling...
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From disinfo.com
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Japanese whaling ships have left port for Antarctic waters for the annual hunt of the ocean giants, Greenpeace says. The factory ship Nisshin Maru and the smaller Yushin Maru 2 and 3 left the western port of Innoshima s for what...
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- Japan set to begin annual whaling (search.msn.com)
- Japan whale fleet leaves for Antarctic: Greenpeace (search.msn.com)
- Japan whale fleet leave for Antarctic: Greenpeace (search.msn.com)


