Japan rallies whaling nations despite protests
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Japan has opened a conference to rally support among countries that support its bid to resume commercial whaling but it was boycotted by most Western countries.
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Science & environment: Environmental activists back on board protest vessel after boarding a Japanese whaling ship
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Protesters scored a victory in a high-seas campaign to disrupt Japan's whale hunt in the Antarctic, forcing the fleet to a standstill Wednesday while officials scrambled to unload two activists who used a rubber boat to get on board a harpoon vessel.
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Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda defends Japan's annual whale hunt, calling for a less emotional debate.
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Japan urged Australia Tuesday to take legal action against two anti-whaling protestors who climbed aboard a Japanese whaler in Antarctic seas last week, a foreign ministry statement said.
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Japan was holding talks with dozens of countries to plot the future of the global whaling body, but most Western states boycotted the meeting as a charade aimed at resuming commercial hunting.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Friday urged calm in a bitter dispute on whaling with Australia, which voiced disappointment as whalers resumed their controversial Antarctic hunt.
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A special meeting of the global whaling body called by Japan  is boycotted by most anti-whaling nations.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The International Humane Society is taking a Japanese whaling company to court in Sydney on Tuesday, accusing it of killing whales in an Australian whale sanctuary.
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Japan was fuming over the failure of  its bid to expand trade in whale products and Africa swapped  blows over ivory Thursday as a U.N. meeting on trade in wild  plants and animals wrapped up.
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Japan's Antarctic fleet resumes whaling after anti-hunt activists are forced away by running out of fuel.
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Japan insisted on Wednesday that its ties with Washington would not be shaken by a U.S. Congressional resolution urging Tokyo to apologize for forcing women to serve as sex slaves during World War Two.
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Japan said Friday it would be difficult to resolve a growing row with Australia over whaling as the issue was a cultural clash between the two countries.
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Australia accused Japan Sunday of a &quot;dummy-spit&quot; -- a childish tantrum -- over its failure to lift the ban on commercial whaling at an international conference last week.
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Japan has warned it does not rule out quitting the International Whaling Commission if the divided group does not allow whaling within several years.
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Japan threatened to quit the  International Whaling Commission on Thursday after fierce  opposition from anti-whaling nations forced it to scrap a  proposal to allow four coastal villages to hunt the animals.
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The United States and Japan may be  on opposite sides of the whaling debate but they have a common aim -- gaining support for whale hunting by their indigenous and coastal communities.