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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.

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‘All Legal Means Available’: Japanese Whalers Fight Back

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On the high seas around Antarctica, things are getting ugly. For the crew of the “Steve Irwin”, belonging to the anti-whaling activists Sea Shepherd , this is old news. They’re there to prevent the slaughter of hundreds of minke whales by Japanese sailors on three vessels including the factory ship Nisshin Maru - technically a research vessel, but also involved in whalemeat processing that ends up on Japanese dinner tables. The whales are being hunted legally thanks to a loophole in in the International Whaling Commission’s 1986 moratorium, allowing a percentage of whales to be collected for “research” purposes - and in 2007 this ... Read Full Story

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Paul Watson Shot? Wait a Minute!

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Something is not right about the latest action on the Southern Ocean. At hand claims and even a video showing what looks like a shot t hrough a bullet proof vest worn by Sea Shepherds Captain-Paul Watson. In this video he claims to have taken a direct round to the heart region. For all intents it looks like he has, with the bullet passing deeply into the vest only to be stopped dramatically by a shield he was wearing below the vest. The media are having a field day with this. Now let's break this one down. 1. The shooter, presumably firing from the ... Read Full Story

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Japan:Greenpeace Out-Sea Shepherd Remains

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As you know we have been following the 2008 Southern Sea whale hunt this year with keen interest. First there was the Sea Shepherd vs Greenpeace war of words . The "who was more green" eco-ocean smackdown. Then, three weeks ago, we covered the ongoing Sea Shepherd stink bomb throwing hippie hostage standoff with the Nisshin Maru. We also covered Yokozuna Asashoryu , Tokyo's top Sumo wrestler's open wrestling challenge to Sea Shepherds captain-Paul Watson. Man, what a season! And now, after two full months of chasing the bad guys and world attention, sadly, Greenpeace is withdrawing their vessel from the hunt due to ... Read Full Story

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Heading South and a Mystery Light

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The Sea Shepherd crew are now heading South to catch up with the Yusshin Maru No.2 hunter/killer harpoon vessel. They have a tracking device onboard her and it was only a half a days sail away. Captain Paul Watson: At 1200 hours, Sea Shepherd changed course and began to head due south, as the Nisshin Maru continued westward. Contact was broken off with the Japanese factory ship at 63 degrees, 42 minutes south and 124 degrees, 56 minutes east. “We have chased the factory ship for a solid week as they ran full out, back and forth across the Southern Ocean,” said Captain Paul ... Read Full Story

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What is the Nisshin Maru?

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It is Japan's largest research whaling vessel. It is utilized for both research programs in the Antarctic and the western North Pacific. Read Full Story

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Book Alert / Whaling in Japan

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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Activists dodge Japanese whaling fleet after skirmish

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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Aussie Greens call for legal action against Japanese whaling+

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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Hatoyama urges Australian response to sabotage of Japanese whaling

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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Diplomacy 'will stop Japanese whaling'

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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Japan Embroiled in Whaling Wars at New Level of Hostility

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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Whalers off to Antarctic

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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