Japan kills 300 minke whales in annual hunt

Whaling fleet returns to port after defying global moratorium and international criticism

Greenpeace and Japanese whaling ship
Greenpeace activists prevent the transfer of a whale on to a Japanese whaling ship
(Image credit: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert /AFP/Getty Images)

Japanese whalers have killed more than 300 minke whales during from their annual Antarctic hunt, defying a worldwide moratorium.

Five ships set sail for the Southern Ocean in November with plans to slaughter the whales, says The Guardian, Three have since returned to Shimonoseki, in the west of Japan, where they were greeted by more than 200 people.

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