A whaling activist who jumped aboard a Japanese whaling ship from a Jet Ski on Monday is being held on the ship and will be taken to Japan for questioning, Japanese officials said on Wednesday.
The activist, Peter Bethune from New Zealand, is part of the U.S. based Sea Shepherd activist group. His goal was to arrest the ship's captain for what he called attempted murder, when the Japanese ship hit a Sea Shepherd ship last month, AP reports.
He also wanted to present the captain with a $3 million bill for the damage to the boat. Japan which has six whaling vessels in the Antarctic, has said the activist will be questioned under Japanese law.
Although Japan abandoned commercial whaling in the 1986, it has continued whaling for what it calls a research program, something challenged by activists.
