Japan's Big Whale: The Taigei-Class Submarine Ready to ... Surface ships are detectable by air, satellite, and surface surveillance technologies. Yet, undersea submarines conducting clandestine ...

Undeterred by declining appetites for whale meat, and unfazed by global opposition to commercial hunts, Japan's whaling industry is doubling down. Earlier this month, a company unveiled a new ...

The Kangei Maru, a commercial whaling ship, leaves Shimonoseki port in western Japan on April 21, 2025. (Kyodo) SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi (Kyodo) -- A commercial whaling ship left a western Japanese ...

Japan’s Fisheries Agency has proposed expanding commercial whaling along the country’s coast to fin whales, a larger species than the three currently permitted. The proposal comes five years ...