The hunt for whales japan has resumed commercial whaling in its waters despite global outbreak but is the practice commercially sustainable and course of the Cultural Roots of boiling in japan and is culture a justification this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter dolby whales were hunted to the brink of extinction until 1986 when a group of countries agreed to temporarily stop whaling for profits which turned into a Semi International ban however conservationists are now worried the species might be facing a similar threat many countries continue to hunt whales for what they say are scientific purposes and japan which is one of the leading commercial whaling countries is now resumed that practice in its waters it says whaling is part of its culture and can be done in a Sustainable Way but as mariana home explains japanese pallets and tastes of moved on. For more than 30 years the International Whaling commission has been locked in a fight its job is to protect w
To the general population there will be a few communities where its more commonly et but beyond that really this is just something which creates so much problem for japan all around the world and its done a very strange thing with this latest move michael you were nodding there listening to mark bristol staying with you in tokyo is there a silent minority of people who if it came down to put in a cross in a box i guess would support the wheeling industry because theyre and t. And t. Whaling industry people because they feel theyre being got at because they feel perhaps no somebody outside japan should not tell us what to do. Well if i was to characterize the majority japanese position on the issue of whaling it would be indifference its simply this not part of their daily lives and and that their its not something that they they see a lot on the media here its just not a concern but there are 2 points i think are worth bearing in mind about this change one is that the compared to the c
To actually see them several they were shocked pay for fascinated by the big sharks actually killing them is a ridiculous weist of the Natural Resource michael penned in so q is that a valid argument in your opinion and does that argument get any traction any place in japan i mean the industry the eco Tourism Industry that can collins is talking about globally is worth 77000000000. 00 every 12 months so if it goes from being food tourism you know rather than eat something that tastes like very greasy chicken when its cooked properly go and see the whales in their natural habitat and they can then swim off and do what whales do right well fortunately that kind of eco tourism whale eating link has never really developed in the case of japan to the extent that foreigners are involved in the whaling issue in japan at all its as activists against whaling and in fact you know the towns where they where the whalers are to some extent you know bar anybody have very Strong Security services loo
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