It’s a ritual that boils the blood of whale-watchers everywhere. On Nov. 18, a fleet of four Japanese vessels left Shimonoseki harbor in Western Japan to begin its five-month whale hunt in the ...

Mercury high in Japan’s dolphin-hunting ... tuna and swordfish tend to have the highest levels. The latest studies published by the Japanese government show that meat from bottlenose dolphins ...

Coming amid criticism of Japan's whaling program - as well as an Oscar award for the film "The Cove," which depicts the dolphin-hunting village of Taiji in southwestern Japan - the tuna issue has ...

Japan is dead set on hunting whales—international critics be damned. In 2014, the International Court of Justice ordered the country to stop hunting whales.