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Japan to Resume Whaling, Fleet Sails to Antarctic Tuesday

posted by CoolHand on Tuesday December 01 2015, @06:02AM   
from the captain-ahab dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Japan will dispatch a whaling fleet to the Antarctic on Tuesday after a one year suspension, the government said, defying international criticism and a UN legal ruling that the "research" expedition is a commercial hunt in disguise.

"The research ships will depart for new whale research in the Antarctic on December 1, 2015," the Fisheries Agency said Monday in a statement on its website.

Tokyo has for years come under intense global pressure to stop hunts that opponents decry as inhumane but that Japan says are an inherent part of its traditional culture.

The United Nations' top legal body judged last year that Japan's so-called scientific whaling activity in the Southern Ocean was a disguise for commercial hunts.

It's for scientific research. Tasty, tasty research.

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Original Submission

• Giant FU! to the rest of the world. Giant FU! to the rest of the world. (Score: 2, Insightful) by Whoever on Tuesday December 01 2015, @07:32AM

  by Whoever (4524) on Tuesday December 01 2015, @07:32AM (#270075) Journal

  Japanese people don't really like eating whale meat that much. This is just some kind of imperialist BS -- telling the rest of the world not to meddle in Japanese affairs.

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• Re:Giant FU! to the rest of the world. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @10:00AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @10:00AM (#270105)

  I think we should all tell them to quit drinking green tea. Reverse psychology!

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