Japan should stop harpooning whales for scientific research, a report published by the WWF environmental organisation has said.

In a report on the country's whaling programs, WWF says Japan should live up to its reputation as a technologically advanced nation and put an end to so-called scientific whaling using the ...

Japan has imported thousands of tons of bluefin tuna caught by Turkey in the Eastern Atlantic in violation of international agreements, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.

The Japanese branch of an international environmental watchdog on Friday blasted an agreement struck the previous day in Sydney by Japan, the United States and Australia to transfer to the ...