Folowing a ruling by the UN's top court many observors suggested that Japan would discontiue its research whaling having been the focus of controvosy since its eception following a world wide ban on whaling in the 1980's.
Japan's research whaling program is nothing more than a scam prepertated by the Japanese government and the fishing industry to cover its real purpose, commerical whaling not research.
Given all the research that's supposedly been conducted one one would assume that peer reviewed papers in the field of cetology would have been published, yet there is no clear evedence that any such papers or studies have been submitted to any recognised scientific journal in the field.
A Japanese whaling fleet, the first since the UN's top court ordered Tokyo to stop killing the mammals in the Antarctic under the guise of research, has left port under tight security with a lowered target of whales to be killed along the country's northern coast.
Four ships departed from the fishing town of Ayukawa in the northeast on Saturday, marking this season's start to a coastal whaling programme not covered by the International Court of Justice's landmark ruling - which found Japan's
Southern Ocean expedition was a commercial activity masquerading as research.
Some observers had predicted the Japanese government would use the cover of last month's court ruling to abandon what many have long considered the facade of a scientific hunt.
But Tokyo's decision to continue whaling is likely to set off a new battle with critics who had hoped the ruling would bring an end to a slaughter that the Japanese government has embraced as part of the island nation's cultural heritage.
Japan's research whaling program is nothing more than a scam prepertated by the Japanese government and the fishing industry to cover its real purpose, commerical whaling not research.
Given all the research that's supposedly been conducted one one would assume that peer reviewed papers in the field of cetology would have been published, yet there is no clear evedence that any such papers or studies have been submitted to any recognised scientific journal in the field.
A Japanese whaling fleet, the first since the UN's top court ordered Tokyo to stop killing the mammals in the Antarctic under the guise of research, has left port under tight security with a lowered target of whales to be killed along the country's northern coast.
Four ships departed from the fishing town of Ayukawa in the northeast on Saturday, marking this season's start to a coastal whaling programme not covered by the International Court of Justice's landmark ruling - which found Japan's
Southern Ocean expedition was a commercial activity masquerading as research.
Some observers had predicted the Japanese government would use the cover of last month's court ruling to abandon what many have long considered the facade of a scientific hunt.
But Tokyo's decision to continue whaling is likely to set off a new battle with critics who had hoped the ruling would bring an end to a slaughter that the Japanese government has embraced as part of the island nation's cultural heritage.
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