Japan Starts Commercial Whaling Yet Again After 30 Long Years

Japan again resumed commercial whaling for the first time in over three decades since Tokyo took the controversial decision to pull out from the International Whaling Commission.

Monday morning five vessels left Kushiro in northern Japan with their harpoons concealed beneath tarpaulins and at the almost same time, three whaling boats left Shimonoseki in south-western Japan.

Hours later, two gray minke whales more than eight meters long were brought ashore. One ...