TOKYO (Reuters) - Court hearings began to stop dolphin hunting in a Japanese village on Friday, with plaintiffs saying the grisly annual hunts, made famous in an Oscar-winning documentary, violate animal protection laws due to their "extreme cruelty".
The western Japanese town of Taiji, long known for the hunts involving driving hundreds of dolphins into a cove and clubbing them to death, became notorious after the 2009 documentary "The Cove", sparking global protests.
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