SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--The aging Nisshin Maru, a relic of Japan’s whaling tradition, has finally retired after playing a central role in research and commercial operations for more ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--The Kangei Maru, a new whaling mother ship that will succeed the decommissioned Nisshin Maru, has been built here. A signing ceremony for its delivery was held ...

The Kangei Maru has succeeded the world's only other whaling mother ship, the Nisshin Maru. Rather than carving up the carcasses on deck, often in bad weather, the workers will now be able to ...

This is almost double that of its predecessor, Nisshin Maru and thus, the vessel could remain at sea for longer periods. The Kangei Maru is now the world’s only whaling fleet mother ship ...

TOKYO, Japan (CNN)-- Anti-whaling protesters hurled containers ... more than two dozen bottles of rotten butter at the Nisshin Maru, "sending a stench throughout the whale killing ship that ...

Greenpeace says the Nisshin Maru is the factory ship of the Fisheries Agency of Japan's whaling fleet. No one was injured in Sunday's incident, though Greenpeace said its ship was "battered and ...

Anti-whaling activists have accused a Japanese ... Shepherd website said a Japanese vessel that was accompanying the Nisshin Maru whaler “deliberately rammed” the Ady Gil, a high-tech speed ...

The Kangei Maru was launched on March 30 in the port of Shimonoseki, in southern Japan, to replace the Nisshin Maru ... insisting before the International Whaling Commission that it should ...