Int'l court rules against Japanese whaling

Int'l court rules against Japanese whaling

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in February 1987 shows whaling by a Japanese ship in the Antarctic Ocean. Japan lost a court case lodged by Australia seeking an end to Japanese whaling in the Antarctic Ocean on March 31, 2014, as the U.N. court ruled Japan's whale hunting is not conducted for scientific purposes and ordered the whaling to stop.

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