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Does the Japanese public support Whaling?

January 11, 2007
By Ken Worsley


When we think of the Japanese economy these days, whaling hardly ever comes to mind. But commercial whaling still goes on under the name of ‘research.’

Each winter the battle wages on: Western-based anti-whaling forces versus the quasi-legal commercial whalers of Japan. Here’s a Yahoo Japan poll showing 90% public support for whaling. However, the cabinet office is claiming that 75% of the public supports a return to commercial whaling and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun shows similar figures. These figures, of course, are reprinted from a press release attempting to show support for whaling in Japan by the Institute of Cetacean Research, which was picked up as news.

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2 Responses to “Does the Japanese public support Whaling?”

  1. rexyrawr on October 16th, 2008 6:51 pm

    i am against whaling, but i love the japanese culture, i read manga, watch anime and i love sushi but whaling is going a bit to far,if they keep on doing this to some extent, whlaes that are amazing beautifull creaters that have been around longer then humans, will surely one day be extinct, why should we as a human race have the right to kill an animal that has done notying to harm us in such a way? and even if they have to murder these giant creaters, then why so barbaricly? i mean, a 2 foot long harpoon hitting the whale and then expoloding inside it, blowing its inside to pieces and then waiting a few hours dragging it onto as ship waiting for it to die? thats just cruel, its not right, if we get jailed for killing intelligent minded people, why not be jailed for killing intelligent minded mamals? Since that is what we all are right? Mammals.
    Thankies for listening to ma comment!^_^
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    ReXy
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  2. Mike on December 1st, 2008 9:42 am

    愚か、無礼クジラをと殺害のための尊重しないこと食べないであることをその他の国々が考えることが日本語わかっているか。 日本人にこの面を除いて多くの点が、世界的にある。 クジラはほぼ絶えている。 なぜそれにもかかわらずそれらを殺すか。 私はまだ私の子供にそれらに会ってほしく私の子供からのそれを取るための日本人を軽蔑する。

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