The hunt for whales japan has resumed commercial whaling in its waters despite global outbreak but is the practice commercially sustainable and force 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 Honda explains japanese pallets and tastes of moved on. That block there have been some names picked forward and accepted press from the top jobs for the m. E. U. The