International Court of Justice orders Japan to end Antarctic whaling

By Andrew Darby
Updated April 2 2014 - 1:18pm, first published 3:00am
Stop order: Yushin Maru No.2, with a minke whale in the Southern Ocean. Photo: Sea Shepherd Australia Ltd./Glen
Stop order: Yushin Maru No.2, with a minke whale in the Southern Ocean. Photo: Sea Shepherd Australia Ltd./Glen

When the world's last whaling factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, left the Antarctic at the end of this past summer, it did something different. For most of its existence, Japan's ''research mother ship'' has been harassed in the far south by anti-whaling activists who have made it their key target. Consequently, its movements have usually been shrouded in secrecy.

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