“We are hoping to revitalize Shimonoseki with whaling, and it is our shared determination not to accept a contract price lower than those in the Tokyo or Osaka markets,” said Yutaka ...

TOKYO (AP) — Meat from fin whales caught ... at the Sapporo fish market and the Kangei Maru’s home port of Shimonoseki. In Shimonoseki, where 250 kilograms (550 lbs) of fin whale meat was ...

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Receives Additional Orders for Three Methanol-Fueled RORO Cargo Ships -- Ships for Toyofuji Shipping ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--The Kangei ... president of Kyodo Senpaku Co., the Tokyo-based whaling company that placed the order for the ship. The Kangei Maru, which cost 7.5 billion ...

owned by Tokyo-based seafood company Kyodo Senpaku. During this month, Kangei Maru is scheduled to leave its home port of Shimonoseki for an eight-month maiden voyage off the north-east coast of ...

The Kaikyokan Aquarium in Shimonoseki, Japan ... the world reporting their animals were becoming lonely, an aquarium in Tokyo organized an "emergency" video call event for its eels.

On April 3, a crowd gathered in Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, to celebrate the completion of the Kangei Maru, a 9,300-ton colossus built by Tokyo-based firm Kyodo Senpaku at a cost of 7. ...