It’s September again! Perched on the southern tip of Japan’s main Honshu...

Jay Alabaster
Jay Alabaster is an adjunct professor at Waseda University, Hitotsubashi University, and Chuo University. He is a reporter and scholar focused on media and cultural issues surrounding the whaling issue in Japan. He currently lives in Taiji, Japan, where he is working on a book and his dissertation.
For a half-century, Japanese whalers have been stalked by controversy. The target of...
The five whaling boats chugged out into the bumpy waters off of eastern...
“Dolphins!” Out went the cry, and the coiffed men lined up on the...
The dolphin hunts are no secret in Taiji, and if you know a fisherman...