In May 2026, a Japanese woman named Tsumugi tweeted a 2023 McDonald’s Japan anime ad and asked her overseas followers why it ...

Japan said Wednesday it is withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission and will resume commercial whaling next year, sparking criticism from activists and anti-whaling countries including ...

Japan's Fisheries Agency has proposed expanding commercial whaling along the country's coast to fin whales, a larger species than the three currently permitted. The proposal comes five years after ...

Japan recently left the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and has now caught the first whale in its waters since resuming commercial whaling, 33 years after a global ban came into effect. As a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... TOKYO — Japan announced Wednesday that it is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial hunts for the animals for the first time in 30 ...