Taiji, Japan: The Long Bloody History of Dolphin Roundups

Taiji is the only town in Japan where large-scale drives, a method of hunting in which large numbers of mammals are herded into a small space and then slaughtered, have a long history dating back as far as 1606. Hundreds of dolphins are killed each year, for example, during the hunt from early September 2015 to the end of February 2016, 66 broad-snouted dolphins, 51 short-finned pilot whales, 245 Risso’s dolphins and 290 striped dolphins were killed.