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	Whaling in Japan Summary
		Whaling became a prosperous endeavor in the middle of the Edo period (1600/1603–1868), and whale meat continued to be eaten.
		Japan's desire to restart its commercial whaling is evidenced by its annual petition to the International Whaling Commission requesting that a quota for a commercial Minke Whale hunt be given.
		Japan says that its scientific research seeks to provide answers to questions about the whales' population, age composition, sex ratio, and natural mortality rate in order to ascertain whether a commercial catch would be sustainable.
	www.bookrags.com /Whaling_in_Japan (1750 words)

	Whaling in Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1982, the International Whaling Commission imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling, while Japan initially intended to object to the moratorium, it withdrew in submission in the face of the threat of economic sanctions made by the United States.
		Japan's desire to restart its commercial whaling is evidenced by its annual petition to the International Whaling Commission requesting that a quota for a commercial Minke Whale hunt be given.
		Japan is expected to vote against traditional whaling on the belif that criteria of so called "subsistent" whaling favour countries who are anti (commercial) whaling but currently engage in "subsistent" whaling nonetheless.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Whaling_in_Japan (1367 words)

	Japan - guideofcasinos.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Japan (æ—¥æ¬, Nippon/Nihon, literally "the origin of the sun", or less literally "Land of the Rising Sun") is an island country east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean.
		Japan is a temperate region with, more or less, four seasons (some believe the rainy season should be a fifth season), but because of its great length from north to south, its climate varies from region to region: the far north is very cold in the winter, while the far south is subtropical.
		Japan maintains one of the world's largest fishing fleets and accounts for nearly 15% of the global catch, prompting some claims that Japan's fishing is leading to over depletion in fish stocks such as tuna.
	guideofcasinos.com /Japan.html (4879 words)

	SMALL-TYPE COASTAL WHALING IN JAPAN
		Most of these were registered in the old whaling communities of the southwest from where the crews originated, but they operated all around Japan and thus contributed to the spread of whaling to new catching grounds and to new coastal communities.
		Yet the whaling traditions of many of those communities which no longer have their own land station have continued right up to the present, while those towns which are comparative newcomers to whaling identify with these old traditions just as strongly.
		Whaling has had an important influence on the rituals and beliefs of Arikawa, and many religious observances are directly related to whaling activities.
	luna.pos.to /whale/gen_coast.html (3636 words)

	CNN.com - Japan suffers whaling blow - May 21, 2002
		Japan's bid to take 50 minke whales in nearby offshore waters was also rejected on the second day of the five-day annual meeting.
		Japan and other pro-whaling nations say sanctuaries are unnecessary because whales are already protected by a 1986 whaling moratorium.
		Japan had hoped to gain a simple majority in the IWC to give momentum to its push to overturn the commercial whaling moratorium and allow it to expand its research whaling program, begun in 1987.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/05/21/japan.whaling (725 words)

	The Whaling Controversy
		Japan withdrew the objection from the IWC and terminated the whaling operations under the agreement between the U.S. and Japan.
		Japan's small-type coastal whaling, though having some commercial element, culturally constitutes the core of whaling communities, and as such is close to what the IWC recognizes as subsistence whaling.
		I was born in Japan and raised in Japan.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Styx/9189/whaligcon.html (3308 words)

	WDCS Australia
		On the 10th anniversary of their capture, WDCS is asking people to remember the 10 orcas (killer whales) that were trapped and removed from the wild near the coastal town of Taiji, Japan, and for the Japanese authorities to refuse permission for further orca captures in Japanese waters.
		Over 2,000 small whales and dolphins are taken in these cruel hunts that cause extreme suffering to entire pods of dolphins that are corralled into shore and butchered for meat, or taken alive for the aquarium industry.
		Rare whales die after stranding in Golden Bay, NZ Two of three rare strap-toothed whales which stranded in Golden Bay have died after a failed rescue attempt by Department of Conservation staff.
	www.wdcs.org.au (1481 words)

	Japan launches pro-Whaling offensive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When the International Whaling Commission was established earlier this century, its membership consisted entirely of whaling nations, and it was the earlier pro-whaling policies of the organization that have been responsible for the critical decline in numbers we currently see in the world's whale populations.
		In other interesting stories Whales take up the singing of new song - After some being joined by some whales from the western ocean, some eastern whales find their song catchy, and soon all eastern whales are singing the new tune...Researchers said that "it is an unprecedented example of a "cultural revolution" in whale songs...
		By the way, whales have no natural enemies, except people, who really don't need to be eating intelligent animals like whales, and also, like whales, can change their culture as well, learn to sing new songs, and so on...
	www.awitness.org /news/april_2002/japan_pro_whaling.html (569 words)

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		A proposal to begin limited coastal whaling along Japanese shores was defeated by 29 to 26; a bid to have the ballots conducted in secret rather than in public failed; and efforts to get rid of a whale sanctuary in the Antarctic also came to nothing.
		Whales killed for research purposes are sold for food after being studied.
		In 2000, when the International Whaling Commission met in Australia, the Japanese Whaling Association ran an advertising campaign in which it said that whale meat is as integral to the Japanese diet as meat pies are to the Australian diet.
	www.nature.com /news/2005/050620/pf/050620-16_pf.html (467 words)

	Whaling Puts Japan on the Defensive Yet Again
		Every year at the IWC sessions, Japan and Norway press for an end to the moratorium on whale hunting that was agreed in 1986.
		And at the same time, the international pressure mounts, year after year, to halt the expansion of Japan's whale catch, which is protected by a hunting permit for "scientific ends", which the IWC granted in 1987.
		Japan argues that certain species, like the minke whale, are not in danger of extinction, but instead have experienced important population growth, and that the consumption of whale meat is part of the country's centuries-old culture.
	www.tierramerica.net /2002/0512/iacentos.shtml (386 words)

	Japan Remains Firm On Whaling - CBS News
		Japan, which is now hosting the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission, has come under harsh criticism from the United States, Australia and other countries for its research whaling program.
		Japan, along with fellow whaler Norway, agrees with protecting endangered species but argues that others, such as the minke whale, are in no danger of dying out and that hunting within limits should be allowed.
		Tokyo also maintains that eating whale, regarded as a gourmet delicacy, is an important part of its cultural heritage despite protests from environmentalists focused on protecting endangered species and preventing the slaughter of the intelligent mammals.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/05/09/tech/main508442.shtml (825 words)

	Japan savours whaling triumph
		Japan hailed its first victory in a pro-whaling vote in 20 years as a historic turning point that will put the world whaling body back on the course to commercial hunting.
		Japan counters that all it wants is to restart commercial whaling in a manner which will preserve whale stocks.
		The resolution, which is non-binding and cannot supercede the 20-year moratorium on commercial whaling which needs a 75 percent majority to be overturned, passed by 33 votes to 32 with one abstention.
	news.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=107181 (464 words)

	Japan loses whaling bid. 21/06/2005. ABC News Online
		Japan has failed in its bid to resume commercial whaling during a vote at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Uslan, South Korea.
		Japan had presented a proposal to the IWC for an eventual return to commercial catches.
		Japan kills around 650 whales annually under its so-called scientific program, which is allowed despite the moratorium on commercial catches.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200506/s1397268.htm (521 words)

	The Japan News.Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Bank of Japan is expected to raise interest rates for the first time in six years from zero Friday, although jittery foreign exchange and bond markets were betting that any...
		Japan's central bank raised interest rates for the first time in six years on Friday, lifting its key rate to 0.25 percent from zero and affirming the end of a long era of...
		Japan's economy minister Kaoru Yosano, speaking just as the Bank of Japan announced the results of its two-day policy board meeting, said Friday that ending the...
	feeds.thejapannews.net /?rid=9eac242ca2ebb499&cat=c4f2dd8ca8c78044&f=1 (1104 words)

	Japan plans pro-whaling alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The IWC imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling, in effect since 1986, to let the whales recover from centuries of industrial whaling which had left some species near extinction.
		Japan, Norway and Iceland want the moratorium lifted, and say there are enough of some species for a small annual catch.
		Japan has threatened for years to leave the IWC if it did not get its way: the politicians' proposals show it is taking the possibility more seriously than in the past.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1175722/posts (1021 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Japan threatens whaling walkout
		Japan and Norway each kill 600-700 whales a year, as they are allowed to do under IWC rules, and Iceland wants to restart research whaling and probably resume a commercial killing programme soon.
		They say there is no evidence the whales have recovered from the bloody destruction of the centuries of industrial whaling, and they regard the killing as inevitably inhumane.
		Japan believes the IWC promised to end the ban in 1990.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/2992622.stm (492 words)

	Japan Admits Whaling Vote Bribes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The head of Japan's fisheries agency has admitted his country had used overseas aid grants to bribe some countries to vote against an international ban on commercial whaling.
		Japan currently kills whales under a scientific programme but wants a return to open commercial whaling.
		He described minke whales, which were most commonly caught by Japanese whalers, as cockroaches of the seas.
	www.rense.com /general12/bribes.htm (334 words)

	Australia-Japan-Whaling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Conservation groups Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd have been chasing Japan's whaling fleet in Antarctic waters for two weeks, frustrating their hunt for the 850 minke whales and 10 fin whales that Japan says it wants to kill as part of a scientific research program.
		Hideki Moronuki, the deputy chief of the Far Seas Fisheries division of Japan's Fisheries Agency, was quoted as saying by Australian Associated Press that it may ask Japan's Maritime Police Agency to support its whaling operations if the conservationists escalate their interference.
		Japan and Greenpeace are at odds about who was to blame for Sunday's collision between the whaler Nisshin Maru and Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise.
	www.cp.org /premium/ONLINE/member/WORLD/060110/w011031A.html (385 words)

	Whaling fleet departs Japan
		The Japanese Fisheries Agency whaling fleet leaves Shimonoseki, Japan bound for the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary with plans to harpoon 935 minke whales and 10 endangered fin whales.
		Tokyo, Japan — This year the Japanese fleet will again try to kill 935 minke and 10 fin whales off the coast of Antarctica in what the whalers are calling a "feasibility study" for expanded "research" whaling.
		Earlier this year, Japan's whalers announced to the International Whaling Commission meeting that its previous "feasibility study" was a "complete success".
	www.greenpeace.org /canada/en/campaigns/whaling-fleet-departs-japan (368 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Japan gains key whaling victory
		Japan said the outcome was "historic", but it does not mean a lifting of the 1986 ban - that would need support from three-quarters of the commission.
		Japan and other pro-whaling nations want to move the International Whaling Commission (IWC) away from conservation and towards managing whale numbers.
		The slim victory for Japan followed its defeat in four other votes at the IWC meeting, including a proposal to end work on the conservation of small cetaceans such as dolphins and porpoises.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/5093350.stm (666 words)

	Japan to push whaling issue.
		Japan will put pressure on the UN to revise whale meat market regulations at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) conference, which begins this week in Chilean capital city Santiago.
		Despite Japanese proposals for a relaxation of the ban, the majority voting system at the conference combined with a widespread disapproval of whaling around the world are expected to quash any chance of a revision.
		Japan’s new Environment Minister Shunichi Suzuki, appointed in October, is a renowned pro-whaling supporter and is widely expected to force the issue within the international community in the coming months.
	www.greenconsumerguide.com /news924.html (173 words)

	Time for Kids \| News \| A Whaling Controversy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Japan's whale hunters are on a controversial mission.
		Though hunting whales for the sale of whale meat to consumers was banned in 1986, hunting whales for research purposes is still legal.
		Supporters of the hunt also say whaling is necessary because an overpopulation of fish-eating whales could seriously reduce the world's seafood supply.
	www.timeforkids.com /TFK/news/story/0,6260,51735,00.html (343 words)

	Stop Whaling by Japan and Norway! Petition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Japan justifies its hunts under an IWC loophole that permits limited "Scientific Whaling" to study the whales' genetics and diet.
		The 440 whales slaughtered by Japan in year 2000 is a clear indication of a commercial, not "scientific", rationale.
		Norway, too, continues to hunt whales, aiming to kill 549 minke whales in the north Atlantic in 2001.
	www.thepetitionsite.com /takeaction/610602541 (629 words)

	Japan Import, Japan Import of Trade, Czech Trade and Import Information
		Japan has been a rich source of used cars for many years and each day thousands of people buy a used car direct from Japanese car auctions.
		Japan has a progressive food-processing sector, however, the manufacturing companies in it, lack economies of scale and automation both leading to low productivity.
		For energy-hungry Japan, it would be a major coup -- a multibillion dollar pipeline pumping at least a million barrels of oil a day out of Siberia to Russia's Sea of Japan coast.
	japan-import.czechtrade.co.za (1809 words)

	Whaling in Japan: Stop the cruelty Petition
		To: The Prime minister of Japan and the agricultural minister of japan
		Scientific research, as is sometimes used as a front for whaling, does not require the deaths of whales.
		The Whaling in Japan: Stop the cruelty Petition to The Prime minister of Japan and the agricultural minister of japan was created by and written by Vik Brown.
	www.petitiononline.com /vee17/petition.html (193 words)

	Online Petition - Stop Whaling in Japan
		Japan's whaling industry kills whales in large masses.
		We, the undersigned, petition Japan to STOP whaling, for scientific reserch or otherwise.
		The "Stop Whaling in Japan" Petition to "Japan Whaling Association" was written by " Rachel Allwright".
	www.gopetition.com /online/7850.html (203 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Whaling walkout by Japan
		Furious Japanese delegates symbolically walked out of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Berlin yesterday after Mexico, joined by Britain and 23 other countries, narrowly forced the commission to extend its role from global whale management to conservation.
		The WWF, one of the leading campaigners for whales, said: "This is the start of a modern IWC with conservation at its heart.
		It is not the end of whaling but it is very good news for conservation.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,979551,00.html (201 words)

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