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Adolfo Arranz

On April 1 the International Court of Justice in The Hague ordered Japan to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary around Antarctica. Japan maintains that many whale species are not endangered, and last month Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to "increase efforts" to resume commercial whaling.

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The hunters and the hunted

Japan agrees to call off Antarctic whale hunt after UN court judgement

The Japanese whaling fleet's harpoon vessel Yushin Maru No 2 secures a minke whale in the Southern Ocean Photo: AFP

Captured short-finned pilot whales on the deck of a whaling ship at Taiji Port in Japan's oldest whaling village of Taiji. Photo: Reuters

How Tokyo benefits from international court ruling against Japanese whaling

Workers rest after butchering a Baird's beaked whale at Wada port in Minamiboso, southeast of Tokyo. Photo: Reuters

Captured short-finned pilot whales are seen on the deck of a whaling ship at Taiji Port in Japan's oldest whaling village of Taiji, 420 km southwest of Tokyo. Photo: Reuters

A captured short-finned pilot whale is measured by fishery workers, including Fisheries Agency employees, at Taiji Port in Japan's oldest whaling village of Taiji. Photo: Reuters

Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru returns to a port, from the Antarctic Sea, in Shimonoseki, western Japan on April 5, 2014. Photo: AP

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The hunters and the hunted

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