In September 1922, the captain of the Japanese merchant ship Tokei Maru, saved the lives of 825 people, women, children and men, Greeks and Armenians, from the wrath of the Turks at the time of ...

Japanese whaling ship has caught fire near Antarctica, leaving one crew member missing and raising fears of environmental damage. The blaze on board the Nisshin Maru prompted the evacuation of its ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture—Japan’s new whaling ... company that owns the ship, during the ship’s departure ceremony. He said the construction of the Kangei Maru means that offshore ...

The vessel will replace Japan's only existing mother ship, the 30-year-old Nisshin Maru, and comes with a vast array of technological upgrades, as well as extra work and storage space. The "mother ...