Japan vows to keep on whaling, calls resolution against its hunt "regrettable"
Source: Reuters
Japan vows to keep on whaling, calls resolution against its hunt "regrettable"
Source: Reuters - Fri, 19 Sep 2014 03:14 GMT
TOKYO, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Japan vowed on Friday to resume its whaling programme in the Antarctic despite passage of a resolution opposing its hunt by the international body that oversees whales, terming the negative vote regrettable.
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) on Thursday adopted a resolution saying that Japan should abide by a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) earlier this year that its decades-old and disputed "scientific whaling" programme was illegal and should stop.
The surprise March ruling by the ICJ was a blow to Japan, which maintains that whaling is an important part of its culture, and prompted it to call off its 2014-2015 hunt in the Southern Ocean. It still carried out a scaled-down version of its less known Northern Pacific hunt.
Participants at the IWC's biennial meeting in Slovenia passed the non-binding resolution by a 35-20 majority, a move that Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said was "extremely regrettable."
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sakabatou
(42,159 posts)Go get 'em, Sea Shepherd.
Justitia
(9,316 posts)MFM008
(19,818 posts)on Animal Planet.......
yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)stubbornness they have not to stop. Its not necessary. They know the world view, and yet go on with it.. Most Japanese I have talked to don't even see the need for it.. why is it so important that they have to continue doing this? Makes no sense.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)But for Japan to hide commercial whaling behind that same rubric is appalling.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)groundloop
(11,519 posts)It would be one thing if in fact they were doing actual research which would in some way benefit the whale populations or the oceans, but they're not. It's nothing more than a commercial whale harvest. The rest of the civilized world needs to boycott Japanese goods until they come in line with international law.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Any animal that has one young about every 1.5-2 years will be driven extinct from hunting pressure.
ozone_man
(4,825 posts)I drive a Subaru, but I don't have to and I'm ready for a new car. Maybe a Ford or VW? Tough to give up the Sony brand too, but there are alternatives.
It seemed to work with South Africa and apartheid.