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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

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.

Dolphins have been herded into a cove as part of an annual hunt in the Japanese seaside town made famous by an Oscar-winning documentary about their slaughter, conservationist group Sea Shepherd ...

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

In The Cove, Louie Psihoyos’ Oscar-winning 2009 documentary, a group of animal rights activists went to extraordinary lengths to expose the annual dolphin slaughter in Japan’s Taiji cove.The ...

As the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan, approaches, activist Ric O’Barry is getting ready for a four-hour interrogation by Japanese police and immigration officials when he arrives in ...

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 ...