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BBC News
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Officials in Japan and Australia are working to resolve a row over two protesters detained on a Japanese whaling vessel in the Southern Ocean.
Japanese crewmen took the protesters, from the radical Sea Shepherd group, into custody on Tuesday after they..
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CNN
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A baby giant manta ray -- claimed to be the first in the world to be born in captivity -- died at a Japanese aquarium Thursday after being abused by its father, its Japanese keepers said.
The female baby manta was born Saturday at southern Japan's Okin..
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BBC News
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Brain scans have been developed which it is claimed can predict what a person is about to do. German, British and Japanese scientists were able to "read minds" using sophisticated functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) and computer programs. Current Bio..
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BBC News
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A Japanese man has survived for 24 days in cold weather and without food and water by falling into a state of "hibernation", his doctor has said...
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BBC News
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The space shuttle Discovery has docked at the International Space Station (ISS) after a two-day voyage, carrying a $1bn (�500m) Japanese laboratory.
The 16-tonne Kibo lab will be the station's biggest room, for the study of biomedicine and material s..
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BBC News
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An anti-whaling campaigner says he has been shot by Japanese sailors while protesting over their hunting activities in the Antarctic.
Paul Watson, of the Sea Shepherd group, said his colleagues had been throwing stink bombs, but the Japanese responded..
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BBC News
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An Australian court has ruled that the activities of the Japanese whaling fleet are illegal and ordered it to halt its operations.
The Federal Court said Japan had broken domestic law by killing whales in Australian waters off Antarctica.
It is not..
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BBC News
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A Japanese whaling fleet has set sail aiming to harpoon humpback whales for the first time in decades.
The fleet is conducting its largest hunt in the South Pacific - it has instructions to kill up to 1,000 whales, including 50 humpbacks.
The humpba..
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BBC News
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The Australian government has launched an anti-whaling message aimed at Japanese children on video-sharing internet site YouTube.
In the video, which carries Japanese subtitles, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull urges all countries to stop catching..
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Reuters
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Its mass of reddish tentacles flailing, a giant squid fought a losing battle to evade capture in a video unveiled by Japanese scientists on Friday...
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FOX News
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Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of back legs, a discovery that may provide further evidence that ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land...
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