Japan has for decades been steadfastly defiant about hunting whales despite wide...
TOKYO - Japan has for decades been steadfastly defiant about hunting whales despite widespread anger, including from key allies like the United States.
After roughly 30 years of what it has called scientific research whaling, which saw several hundred minke whales taken annually in the Antarctic and North Pacific, Japan in December announced it would leave the International Whaling Commission and resume commercial whaling on July 1.Some areas whaled in prehistory, and in modern times eating them has been mostly confined to specific regions.
Eating whale peaked in the early 1960s, falling off as other meat became more available. Many older Japanese nostalgically recall eating fried or stewed whale in school lunches.Japan joined the IWC in 1951, six years after the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling was signed to found the group, aimed at sustainably managing commercial whaling. But a growing environmental movement shifted the group’s emphasis toward conservation.
In 1988, two years after an international moratorium on commercial whaling began, Japan started scientific research whaling in the North Pacific and the Antarctic. Japanese officials asserted that it provided vital population information, but anti-whaling nations said it was commercial whaling in disguise.
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