The new center will house the Institute of Cetacean Research and serve as a major international hub for whaling research, scientific and cultural information.
In 2018 the IWC officially shifted the organization’s purpose from whaling management to whale conservation over dozens of objections – and Japan withdrew.
Dr Kato naturally hoped that the IWC would act based on the scientific results of the research. But whales had become a totem of the environmental...
Whale research has received a big boost from a new drone that allows it to monitor whales and carry out surveys, even on whale populations swimming...
In the world of commercial whaling, whalers cannot just hunt as they please – there is an annual quota set by the government. However, they must...
Dr. Seiji Ohsumi, the Japanese expert who helped guide the study of whales for more than half a century and was also recognized...
There is broad political support in Japan for revising the nation’s whaling law, including measures for promoting whale products and preserving whale as part of Japan’s...
