A nearly 40-foot whale has died after straying into a port in Japan's Osaka Bay, marking the third year in a row that whales have become stranded in the area.

Deprived of its primary food, giant squid, the whale's spout grew noticeably listless. Unlike Japan's easy-to-navigate harbors like Kobe, Osaka Bay, which serves Japan's third-largest city, is a ...

A whale as long as a train car that died after straying into a port in Osaka last month is set to be buried until it naturally becomes a skeletal specimen for a local museum.

It’s the third year in a row that whales have become stranded in Osaka Bay, raising questions about the reasons why and the cost of handling the incidents.