The practice was made famous in the 2010 Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove." Dolphin hunting season has commenced in the small village of Taiji, Japan, with a quota to kill more than 1,400 dolphins ...

The controversial six-month dolphin hunting season began on Monday in the infamous town of Taiji, but bad weather would delay any killing, a local official told AFP. The annual catch, in which people ...

TOKYO (AP) — The fishing town of Taiji will not stop its dolphin hunts, the mayor said Thursday, after Japan’s aquariums decided to stop buying captured dolphins under international pressure sparked ...

Tokyo (CNN) -- The slaughter of dolphins has begun again in a small Japanese village, in a controversial annual hunt that pits Western environmentalist values against what locals say are traditional ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. TAIJI, Japan — An unprecedented meeting between conservationists and ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has ordered the deportation of Ric O'Barry, the star of the Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove," about a Japanese village that hunts dolphins. But he has refused to leave, ...

TAIJI, Japan — The Japanese fishing village featured in "The Cove," which won an Oscar for best documentary, defended its practice of hunting dolphins Monday as a part of a long tradition. The movie, ...

Campaigners on Friday urged a court in Japan to halt so-called "drive hunting" of dolphins in the country as part of an unprecedented lawsuit that argues the practice violates Japanese law. The ...

TOKYO -- "The Cove," the Oscar-winning film about a dolphin-hunting village in Japan, will be shown in that nation next month, despite pressure from nationalist groups that caused several theaters to ...