The five fishing boats head out to sea ... since the meat was sold on the domestic market anyway. Japan proposed a resumption of commercial whaling to the IWC over 20 times but was denied on ...

Its last commercial hunt was in 1986 ... waters and Exclusive Economic Zone", Hideki Moronuki of the Japanese fishing ministry told the BBC in June. Japan catches first whales after ban lifted ...

Foreign fishing boats have frequently intruded into Japan’s EEZ. According to Fisheries Agency officials, about 4,000 North Korean fishing boats were ordered to leave the waters in 2019.

Japan caught a total of 294 minke whales, Bryde’s whales and sei whales last year, said the Fisheries Agency, which currently limits commercial whaling to the three relatively minor species.