Later in life I returned to the photographs I'd taken in Antarctica – and my memories – and started painting scenes of whaling ships. I've donated paintings to several whaling museums in the ...

But times were changing: Whale populations in the North Atlantic had declined, forcing whaling ships to head to more distant waters, first plundering the rich pickings off the South American coast ...

president of Kyodo Senpaku Co., the whaling company that owns the ship, during the ship’s departure ceremony. He said the construction of the Kangei Maru means that offshore, mothership type ...