FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2010, file photo, fishermen drive bottle-nose dolphins into a net during their annual hunt off Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. A court in central Japan on Friday, May 17, ...

Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project will return to Taiji, the town made infamous by the Academy Award-winning documentary "The Cove," for the beginning of the six month-long dolphin slaughter season on Sept ...

TAIJI, Wakayama Pref. — Researchers have found extremely high methyl mercury concentrations in the hair of some residents of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, where people have a tradition of eating whale ...

In this file photo, Hatakejiri Bay, where a temporary police box was set up, is seen in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, on Nov. 2, 2015. (Mainichi) TAIJI, Wakayama -- As the start of the annual dolphin ...

TAIJI, Wakayama -- An announcement by Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) Aug. 23 that the U.S.-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society had reached a court-mediated settlement in a U.S.

TOKYO - Japanese fishermen drove a large group of dolphins into the shallows and killed at least 30 on Tuesday, hiding themsleves behind a tarpaulin, as the annual dolphin hunt that sparked protest in ...

The Japan Association of Zoos and Aquariums said its members have decided to stop obtaining dolphins caught through drive fishing, complying with a 30-day deadline set by an international zoo ...

These are the only English words known to the barking Japanese man keeping guard over a secret mountain cove on the Pacific Ocean in Taiji, Wakayama prefecture, on Japan’s southern coast. Taiji is a ...

On the harbor road heading east toward Tomyozaki Point, there is a moss-encrusted monument dedicated to an ill-fated whaling expedition in 1878. Facing fierce westerly winds, the fishermen released ...

Caroline Kennedy, the recently appointed U.S. Ambassador to Japan, took to social media to condemn an annual dolphin hunt that was the subject of a 2009 Academy Award-winning documentary titled The ...

Ric O’Barry’s Dolphin Project will return to Taiji, the town made infamous by the Academy Award-winning documentary "The Cove," for the beginning of the six month-long dolphin slaughter season on Sept ...