Fishermen slaughter a 10m-long bottlenose whale at the Wada port in Minami-Boso city, Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo in 2008. Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has asked his visiting Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd to rein in activists disrupting Japan's annual whale hunt, describing their actions as "sabotage.
"(AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)