Japan to resume whale hunting

Japan to resume whale hunting in the Antarctic despite opposition

Japan's chief whaling negotiator has confirmedits ships will return to the Antarctic this year to hunt whales, despite a call by global regulators to provide more evidence that the hunt has a scientific purpose.

Joji Morishita said the debate about whether or not Japan should be killing the mammals had long since moved away from science and into politics.

The scientific committee of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) said Japan had failed to give enough detail to explain why it wanted to kill almost 4,000 minke whales in the Antarctic over the next 12 years.

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