The practice was made famous in the 2010 Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove." Dolphin hunting season has commenced in the small village of Taiji, Japan, with a quota to kill more than 1,400 dolphins ...

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 ...

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 ...

~ scientific studies in recent years in Japan have documented high levels of the toxic heavy metal in dolphin meat TAIJI, Japan -- Every autumn and winter, hunters from this craggy Japanese fishing ...

TAIJI, Japan — The Japanese fishing village featured in "The Cove," which won an Oscar for best documentary, defended its practice of hunting dolphins Monday as a part of a long tradition. The movie, ...

A small Japanese town began its controversial dolphin hunt on Thursday after bad weather delayed the start, according to a local fisheries official, while a separate whaling hunt was due to start at ...

TOKYO -- "The Cove," the Oscar-winning film about a dolphin-hunting village in Japan, will be shown in that nation next month, despite pressure from nationalist groups that caused several theaters to ...