Topic: Japan
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 ...
A New Zealand anti-whaling activist held on a Japanese harpoon ship he boarded in Antarctic waters last month was expected to arrive in Tokyo harbour on Friday and likely face arrest.Bethune also presented the Japanese whalers with a three-million-dollar bill for the ...
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 ...
Living in Japan, you have to sort your household garbage into burnable trash, non-burnable trash, recycling, and probably one other category I've forgotten. Operating on five different wavelengths, the lasers can recognize six kinds of plastic (even ones indistinguishable to the human ...
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 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 ...
Australia and Japan on Thursday struggled to strike a deal in a bitter dispute on whaling, but the US negotiator in intense talks said nations would keep seeking a compromise.Key players on whaling held three days of closed-door talks at a Florida ...
Australia and Japan have failed to reach a breakthrough in an intensifying row on whaling, but delegates in three days of intense talks say that all sides agreed to keep seeking common ground.Some 25 nations met at a Florida beach resort to ...
A former prime minister of New Zealand pleaded with supporters and opponents of whaling to "Key nations including Australia and Japan, whose relations have been increasingly strained over whaling, have been meeting since Tuesday away from the cameras at a beachside hotel ...
Key players on whaling huddled behind closed doors in Florida in an uncertain bid to find common ground on an issue that has bitterly divided Australia and Japan.The delegates will review through Thursday a proposal by Cristian Maquieira, chairman of the 88-nation ...
