Japan’s return to commercial whaling has no economic or cultural case

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ALL pretence of being “scientific” has now been dropped. On 30 June, Japan formally left the Worldwide Whaling Commission (IWC), which devices global principles for whale conservation. On 1 July, a boat returned with the essential score.

The minke change into once Japan’s first whale caught in an overtly industrial operation for 31 years. The country has hunted whales in that time under the pretext of scientific research, nonetheless it with out a doubt has long petitioned to contrivance to industrial whaling. When its final proposal change into once voted down by the IWC in September, Japan …