owned by Tokyo-based seafood company Kyodo Senpaku. During this month, Kangei Maru is scheduled to leave its home port of Shimonoseki for an eight-month maiden voyage off the north-east coast of ...

TOKYO (AP) — Meat from fin whales caught ... at the Sapporo fish market and the Kangei Maru’s home port of Shimonoseki. In Shimonoseki, where 250 kilograms (550 lbs) of fin whale meat was ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture—Japan ... ordered the suspension of research whaling in 2014, taking issue with Tokyo’s claim that it was killing whales for scientific purposes.

On April 3, a crowd gathered in Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, to celebrate the completion of the Kangei Maru, a 9,300-ton colossus built by Tokyo-based firm Kyodo Senpaku at a cost of 7. ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--The aging ... the suspension of Japan’s research whaling after taking issue with Tokyo’s claim it was killing whales for scientific purposes.

The Kangei Maru, a commercial whaling ship, leaves Shimonoseki port in western Japan on April 21, 2025. (Kyodo) SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi (Kyodo) -- A commercial whaling ship left a western Japanese ...

In a photo posted by the aquarium in Kaikyokan, Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi prefecture ... an aquarium in Tokyo organised an "emergency" video call event for its eels, which they believed had ...

TOKYO, July 9. /TASS ... also added that the funeral would be organized at Shinzo Abe’s hometown of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The 67-year-old politician was assassinated in the ...