Int'l court rules against Japanese whaling

Int'l court rules against Japanese whaling

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2013 shows a minke whale captured off Kushiro, northern Japan. 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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