Japan argues that whaling is part of its history and culture. A rigid insistence on maritime sovereignty offers a more convincing explanation for Tokyo’s stance. In this image provided by the ...

“Whaling only continues to exist in Japan through massive subsidies,” Watson claimed. “In fact, $30 million from the tsunami relief fund was channeled into the whaling industry after 2011.

Japan's government voiced dismay on Wednesday over the release of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson after Danish authorities refused Tokyo's extradition request. Greenland arrested the Sea Shepherd ...

U.S.-Canadian environmentalist Paul Watson, 74, was detained based on a decade-old Interpol warrant that accused him of interfering with a Japanese whaling ship.

Despite Denmark's recent rejection of Japan’s extradition request for anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, who was apprehended in July based on a 2012 Interpol arrest warrant issued by Tokyo ...

Animal rights activist Paul Watson, freed this week from detention in Denmark, vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting worldwide and to stop Japan if it tried to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean.

"It is regrettable that the Denmark government did not accept Japan's request of passing him over and (the government) has conveyed this to the Danish side," said top government spokesman Yoshimasa ...

The Japanese arrest and extradition request stemmed from a 2010 incident in the Antarctic in which Watson was accused of having damaged a whaling vessel with explosives. Watson has called the ...

Freed anti-whaling activist Paul Watson has vowed to continue his campaign. He also warned Japanese whalers against returning to the Antarctic Ocean.

Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson - who featured on the television show Whale Wars - has been freed from custody in Greenland and will not face extradition to Japan. Mr Watson, a Canadian-American ...

Japan said it was disappointed after Denmark rejected its extradition request for anti-whaling activist Paul Watson. Mr Watson, 74, founder of the Sea Shepherd group, was released from jail in ...