A controversial Japanese mission to hunt humpback whales in the Antarctic has been temporarily abandoned, a top government official says.Nobutaka Machimura said the humpback hunt would not go ahead - although the fleet will still hunt about 1,000 other whales in the area.
The BBC's Chris Hogg, in Tokyo, says Japan is now unlikely to chase the humpbacks for at least a year.
The move comes after pressure from the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
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