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Japan targets anti-whaling chief for arrest

2010-04-29T22:00:12Z

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's coastguard has obtained an arrest warrant for the head of radical anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd for allegedly ordering members of the group to obstruct Japan's whale hunt, domestic media said on Friday.

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Japan to seek arrest of anti-whaling Sea Shepherd chief: NHK

2010-04-29T17:15:34Z

Japan plans to seek an international arrest warrant against the leader of the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd over tense high-seas clashes, the nation's public broadcaster said Friday.

The Japan Coast Guard has obtained an arrest warrant in Japan charges New Zealand whaling activist with assault, trespassing

Prosecutors Friday indicted an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on charges that could lead to a yearslong prison term after he boarded a Japanese harpoon boat to protest the ship's whale-hunting expedition in Antarctic seas.

Peter Bethune had jumped aboard the Shonan Maru 2 in February duri...

Japan indicts NZ anti-whaling activist

2010-04-02T04:15:34Z

Japan indicted on Friday a New Zealand anti-whaling activist who boarded a harpoon ship on charges including trespass and assault, the latest chapter in a long-running battle between environmentalists and Japanese whalers.

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Japan coastguard inspects whale boat with arrested activist

2010-03-12T23:15:48Z

The Japan Coast Guard inspected a Japanese whaling ship Saturday with a New Zealand anti-whaling activist who is under arrest for trespassing on the vessel in the Antarctic Ocean last month.

Peter Bethune, a member of the militant New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune, who is under arrest in Japan for trespass, is reported to be well and in good spirits, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said Saturday.

Bethune, who has been in custody since he boarded a Japanese harpoon ship in Antarctic wa...

Japan arrests whaling activist for boarding ship

2010-03-12T06:00:33Z

Japan arrests New Zealand anti-whaling activist for illegally boarding Japanese vessel

Japan's coast guard arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegally boarding a whaling ship last month in the latest incident in the ongoing battle over Japanese whaling.

Peter Bethune, a member of the New Zealand anti-whaling activist was arrested in Japan Friday after a harpoon ship he boarded in Antarctic waters last month docked in Tokyo, greeted by police and nationalist protesters.

Peter Bethune, of the militant Japan's Coast Guard obtained an arrest warrant Thursday for an anti-whaling activist who has been held aboard a Japanese harpoon ship since boarding it in the Antarctic last month, press reports said.

New Zealander Peter Bethune, a member of the militant Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, was the captain of a high-...

Australian police search anti-whaling ships for Japan

2010-03-05T23:19:00Z

Australian police searched two anti-whaling ships at the request of Japanese authorities on Saturday, seizing log books and videos, after activists called a halt to their turbulent harassment campaign.

Police boarded the Sea Shepherd group's Steve Irwin and Bob Barker ships as they...

Australian police search anti-whaler ship at Japan's request

2010-03-05T23:18:57Z

Australian police boarded and searched an anti-whaling ship at the request of Japanese authorities on Saturday after activists cut short their annual harassment campaign and returned to port.

Police said they searched the Steve Irwin after it docked in Hobart, Tasmania, but refused to reveal the reasons for the search warrant or what they...

Anti-whalers call end to 'most successful' season ever

2010-02-27T00:16:51Z

Militant anti-whalers declared an end to this year's pursuit of Japanese harpoon ships in Antarctic waters on Saturday, declaring it their most successful and intensely fought campaign so far.

Paul Watson, captain of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society fleet, estimated that they had reduced the Japanese kill count by up to half, c...

Anti-whaling activists end Antarctic campaign

2010-04-16T06:56:58Z

Anti-whaling activists end Antarctic campaign against Japanese for the season

Anti-whaling activists on Friday cut short what they called their "most successful" Antarctic campaign against Japanese whalers, citing an engine problem on one of their ships.

There are two weeks left in the three-month whaling season, during which Japan sends its six-vessel whaling fleet into Antarctic waters as part of a research program...

Anti-whaling group: police seized video of clashes

2010-04-16T14:12:46Z

Conservation group says police seized video of clashes with Japanese whalers

Police boarded the ship of a militant anti-whaling group and seized videotapes of violent clashes between the activists and Japanese whalers, the group said Saturday.

Police said they were investigating the clashes after Japanese authorities reported them to Australian officials, but would not to go into further detail.

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Australian police probe Japanese whaling claims

2010-04-16T17:07:15Z

Australian police have boarded a militant anti-whaling ship involved in a high-seas clash with Japanese whalers and seized its logbooks and other material, according to the ship's captain.

Skipper Paul Watson said officers armed with warrants met his ship, the Steve Irwin, when it docked in the southern city of Hobart late Friday.

Activist ship hits Japanese whaling vessel

2010-04-16T14:48:14Z

Ships carrying militant environmental activists and Japanese whalers collided during a high seas clash in Antarctic waters Friday, with each side blaming the other.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said it had no choice but to hit the Yushin Maru No.2 after the Japanese whaling vessel made a sudden attempt to block the path of activist ship the

One activist was cut and bruised after being knocked over by a high pressure blast of water and the other was hit in the face by a metal ball thrown by the whalers, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society...

Japanese whalers, activists in sea clash

2010-04-16T15:03:49Z

Japanese whalers and environmentalists clashed on the high seas Monday, with the activists accusing the hunters of injuring two of them and of deploying a new "military grade" acoustic weapon.

Authorities in Tokyo said the whaling fleet was trying to ward off the activists who hurled bottles of either paint or rotten butter to disrupt the operations.

The Japan's whaling fleet is once more on the run in Antarctic waters after being tracked down by ship-borne environmental activists, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said Sunday.

The group's ship the "Steve Irwin" found the whalers after searching through fog and rough weather for nearly a...

Japan 'seeks arrest of another anti-whaling activist'

2010-04-16T15:14:48Z

Japan is seeking the arrest of a fourth anti-whaling activist who tried to disrupt the country's controversial Antarctic Ocean hunt in 2007, a report said Wednesday.

The Japanese police sent Interpol the name of Hester Bartels, 41, a Dutch member of the Paul Watson, captain of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel the Paul Watson, captain of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel "Steve Irwin"...

Activists attack Japanese whalers with stink bombs

2010-04-16T13:41:42Z

Militant environmentalists said they had pelted stink bombs at a Japanese whaling ship in Australian waters in their latest bid to disrupt hunting of the protected creatures.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said it "pursued and delivered 10 bottles of rotten butter and 15 bottles of a methyl cellulose and indelible dye mixture" to the Kaiko Maru vessel Friday evening.

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Activists say Japanese whalers have made no kills in two days

2010-04-16T13:44:26Z

Environmental activists Monday said they had been pursuing Japanese whalers through blizzards in the Antarctic for two days during which the harpooners had been unable to kill any whales.

Paul Watson, captain of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel trailing the Japanese fleet, said they had intercepted the whalers on Saturda...

Daryl Hannah makes splash with whale campaign

2010-04-16T14:02:44Z

Actress Daryl Hannah will sail for the inhospitable South Ocean on Wednesday as part of a campaign to stop Japanese whalers from slaughtering the giant animals, organisers said.

Hannah, best known for her role as a mermaid in the 1984 hit "Splash", will be part of the militant Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's annual campaign to...

Hollywood's Hannah on board against Japanese whalers: report

2010-04-16T14:27:14Z

Hollywood mermaid Daryl Hannah will be on board a militant conservationist group's ship for a looming confrontation with Japan's whalers in the Antarctic, the captain said Thursday.

"Daryl is joining our group," Sea Shepherd captain Paul Wa...

Antarctica Whaling

2011-01-03T01:01:12Z

In this photo released by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Japanese whaling ship Yushin Maru No. 3 shoots a water cannon at Sea Shepherd's inflatable boat in the Southern Ocean off Antarctica Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. The anti-whaling activists were chasing the fleet in the hopes of interr...

Antarctic Whaling

2010-11-18T14:24:07Z

FILE - This Jan. 6, 2010 file photo provided by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society shows the Japanese whaling ship Shonan Maru No. 2, background, and the Sea Shepherd's Ady Gil after the two collided in far southern waters off Antarctica. Investigators looking into the collision said Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010, that the captains of both vessels wer...

Japan Whaling Impasse

2010-10-22T12:02:19Z

File - In this Feb. 6, 2009 file photo released by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru, right, hauls a newly caught minke whale up its slipway, accompanied by Japanese harpoon ship Yushin Maru 2, while a Sea Shepherd helicopter flies over in the Ross Sea, the Anta...

Japan Whaling

2010-06-10T03:16:18Z

A group of anti-Sea Shepherd protesters hold banners and pictures outside Tokyo District Court during a trial on New Zealand's anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune over the boarding of a Japanese whaling ship, in

CORRECTION Japan Whaling

2010-06-10T02:45:55Z

A member of right wing group is pushed back by police officers at a demonstration against Sea Shepherd outside the Tokyo District Court, during a trial for New Zealand's anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune over the...