For almost an entire month last September, Tia Butt woke up at sunrise every day in the small coastal Japan town of Taiji to observe its annual dolphin hunt. She watched as fishermen worked in the ...

Many of the 200 dolphins still in the cove in Taiji, Japan, will be slaughtered, they say. Local officials have previously defended hunting of dolphins as a traditional practice.

As depicted in ‘The Cove,’ Japan issues 23,000 permits annually to slaughter dolphins. Here in Taiji, boats go out to sea and herd dolphin pods into a local cove, where nets are arrayed across ...

Local fisherman: Dolphin slaughter took place in cove in Taiji, Japan. Local officials defend hunting of dolphins as a traditional practice. Prefecture government allows hunt of more than 2,000 ...

TAIJI, Japan — As children in inner tubes bob on the calm waters of this small ocean cove, a 550-pound dolphin zips through the crowd in pursuit of raw squid tossed out by a trainer.

The annual dolphin hunt became controversial internationally after the 2009 Academy Award-winning documentary The Cove detailed dolphin hunting practices in Japan. Taiji is a Pacific coast town of ...

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Tokyo, Japan (CNN)-- Cornered by fishermen, divers and boats, the bottlenose dolphins splashed frantically as they tried to escape their human captors in the infamous cove in Japan. Appearing ...

Documentary "The Cove" opens in the U.S. on Friday but has yet to receive distribution in Japan, where dolphin activist Ric O'Barry says 23,000 dolphins and porpoises are legally killed each year.

TAIJI, Japan — The Japanese fishing village featured in “The Cove,” which won an Oscar for best documentary, defended its practice of hunting dolphins today as a part of a long tradition.