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 (Reuters) - Residents of Japanese town defended their annual dolphin hunt on Wednesday as a U.S. documentary showing the event premiered at a Tokyo film festival to a sell-out audience. "The ...
TAIJI, Japan - All Ric O'Barry wants is to stop the killing, so the dolphin trainer for the 1960s "Flipper" TV series figured the natural place to start was in this seaside Japanese town. The American ...
While there have been multiple examples of captive bottlenose dolphins becoming agrgessive, there are far less examples of dolphins causing humans injury in the wild. Photo: Kyodo (AP) Like the orcas ...