But in Japan’s Wakasa Bay ... Researchers have observed dolphins successfully defending themselves from and sometimes even ...

One man, in his 60s, suffered broken ribs and bites to his hands after a dolphin rammed him a few meters off Suishohama beach in the town of Mihama, Fukui prefecture, early on Sunday.

The screams of dolphins in agony fill the air while the sea is crimson with blood. This is the barbaric scene as Japanese fishermen slaughter the trusting creatures so their flesh can be tinned ...

Marine experts say it is not unusual for dolphins to come close to beaches. The mammals inhabit a range of waters around Japan, according to Tetsuya Matsuoka, who manages the Notojima Aquarium in ...

FUKUI--Something lurks beneath the waves of the Sea of Japan and it's not Godzilla. A dolphin bit a 13-year-old boy's right hand at Shiraki beach in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, on July 21.

Media attention exploded after the US Ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, made an online statement via Twitter: “Deeply concerned by inhumaneness of drive hunt dolphin killing. USG [US government] ...

Any big hopes that what the Oscar-winning 2009 documentary “The Cove” did for dolphin slaughter in Japan may happen again with CNN documentary “Blackfish” and SeaWorld are probably ...

1 In Japan, up to 20,000 dolphins, porpoises and small whales are hunted every year in hand harpoon hunts, drive hunts, and small-type whaling operations using bow-mounted harpoons. Most are killed in ...