The Japan Coast Guard inspected a Japanese whaling ship Saturday with a New Zealand anti-whaling activist who is under arrest for trespassing on the vessel in the Antarctic Ocean last month. Peter Bethune, a member of the militant Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, boarded the Shonan Maru II mid-morning with coastguard officials at Yokohama port, south of Tokyo, according to television ...

New Zealand anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune, who is under arrest in Japan for trespass, is reported to be well and in good spirits, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said Saturday. Bethune, who has been in custody since he boarded a Japanese harpoon ship in Antarctic waters last month, was arrested when the vessel docked in Tokyo on Friday. He was visited ...

Tokyo's third international airport opened Thursday with festivity — and heavy criticism that it is a wasteful project likely to serve just a fraction of the passengers forecast. Hundreds of passengers and visitors wandered through Ibaraki Airport's concourses and halls as special commemorative flights were scheduled ...