But in Japan’s Wakasa Bay ... Researchers have observed dolphins successfully defending themselves from and sometimes even ...

Shiori Ito’s searing indictment of Japan’s justice system in handling sexual assault cases is nominated for best documentary ...

The dolphin show was retained, but most staff members returned to their own aquariums on the Japanese mainland and many dolphins died as they were kept in unstable conditions. An expressway ...

Marine experts say it is not unusual for dolphins to come close to beaches. The mammals inhabit a range of waters around Japan, according to Tetsuya Matsuoka, who manages the Notojima Aquarium in ...

One man, in his 60s, suffered broken ribs and bites to his hands after a dolphin rammed him a few meters off Suishohama beach in the town of Mihama, Fukui prefecture, early on Sunday.

The zoo collection techniques once so common and now totally unacceptable elsewhere remain common practice in Japan. The marine aquariums that purchase these captured dolphins are complicit in the ...

Media attention exploded after the US Ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, made an online statement via Twitter: “Deeply concerned by inhumaneness of drive hunt dolphin killing. USG [US government] ...

The illegal killing of 2,000–3,000 dolphins each year by Peruvian fishermen for human consumption has been the focus of a continuing conservation effort by Mundo Azul. We conducted an undercover ...