TOKYO (Reuters) - Greenpeace launched a campaign to turn Japan against whaling on Tuesday, with directors of the group from around the world delivering a letter to Prime Minister Taro Aso ...

JAPAN – Greeted by cheers from a small group of anti-whaling supporters, a Greenpeace boat docked in Japan on Friday, ending a weeklong standoff with Japanese authorities who had effectively ...

Environmental advocacy group Greenpeace said Wednesday efforts by the Japanese government should serve as a model for the fight against climate change. The group said Japan has been able to ...

TOKYO — A Greenpeace effort to expose what it sees as widespread corruption in Japan’s government-subsidized whaling industry ended on Monday with two of its activists convicted of theft and ...

Commercial whaling does still happen, though – namely by Iceland, Norway and Japan. "Greenpeace's actions inspired the public," Finnsson says, "and in 1982 Greenpeace and other non-profits ...

However, whaling for “scientific research” was allowed and the government of Japan continued to do so. A protest against whaling in 1992. While a small Greenpeace boat protests against a factory ship ...

"The time for hybrids, I think, has finished," said Daniel Read, climate and energy campaigner at Greenpeace Japan. Amidst the criticism, Toyota in December upgraded its annual sales target of ...

STORY: Japan’s big car makers are lagging rivals on going green. That’s according to a new report by Greenpeace. It ranked ten big automakers for their progress in decarbonisation. Toyota came rock ...

climate and energy campaigner at Greenpeace Japan. "Fundamentally, when compared to other global automakers, they're falling far behind," Read said. The ranking measured progress in phasing out ...

HO CHI MINH CITY -- Climate groups, including Greenpeace Thailand, said they "vehemently condemn" the Japan Bank for International Cooperation for helping fund a $10 billion gas field in Vietnam ...

Greenpeace entities plan to appeal the decision ... made outside the United States as he touted a partnership between Japan's Nippon Steel Corporation and the United States Steel Corporation ...