Japan whalers return home

TOKYO, Japan - The Nisshin Maru, leading vessel of Japan's whaling convoy, returns to a Tokyo pier from the Antarctic Ocean on March 21, 2011. The whalers were forced to halt so-called research whaling after obstruction by the antiwhaling group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

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