Australia, New Zealand Challenge Japan Over Whaling
![A whale and a calf being loaded aboard a factory ship, the Nisshin Maru. The sign above the slipway reads, "Legal research under the ICRW". Australia released this photo to challenge that claim. Image-Australian Customs and Border Protection Service Australia, New Zealand Challenge Japan Over Whaling](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/image01-12-2015-08.41.48.jpg)
SYDNEY—Australia and New Zealand have condemned Japan’s move to send a whaling fleet to the Southern Ocean. It comes a year after an international court ruled that Tokyo’s whale hunt in the Southern Ocean should stop. Last year, the U.N.’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that Japan’s whaling program in the Southern Ocean was […]