Japanese Government Defends Dolphin Hunt As Killing Goes On : The Two-Way The "drive hunt" by fishermen in one village is "a form of traditional fishing," a government spokesman says. Dolphins are ...

Japanese prime minister responds to dolphin controversy. Japan’s own slaughter guidelines for livestock require that the creature being killed must be made to lose consciousness and must be ...

Bottlenose dolphins are being slaughtered off the coast of Japan in what’s described as a “sickening” annual ritual. Fishermen drove more than 500 dolphins into the infamous Taiji… ...

TAIJI, JAPAN — All Ric O’Barry wants is to stop the dolphin killing, so the trainer for the 1960s “Flipper” TV series is headed to this seaside Japanese town, where the hunt goes down. The ...

Izumi Ishii, an ex-dolphin hunter, has gone on record contradicting the Japanese government’s claims that the practice is a century-old tradition, but instead had originated as late as 1969.

Japan has ordered the deportation of the star of the Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove,” about a dolphin-killing village in Japan.

TOKYO – The star of an Oscar-winning documentary about dolphin killings in Japan has been detained by immigration authorities at an airport near Tokyo. Ric O'Barry is the former dolphin trainer ...

Each year in a lagoon off the coast of Taiji, Japan, fishermen take part in the clandestine slaughter of thousands of dolphins. Leading the effort to stop the hunt is Ric O’Barry, who trained ...

Japanese prime minister responds to dolphin controversy. Japan’s own slaughter guidelines for livestock require that the creature being killed must be made to lose consciousness and must be ...