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Japanese Small Type Coastal Whaling, Sue Fisher Jul 2016

Japanese Small Type Coastal Whaling, Sue Fisher

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2016 marks the 70th anniversary of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW) as well as the 30th anniversary of the International Whaling Commission’s (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling. It also marks three decades of effort by Japan to overturn this ban. Its strategy to circumvent the moratorium by issuing permits to kill protected whales for scientific research is famous—even the subject of a 2014 lawsuit at the International Court of Justice. Less well known is Japan’s strategy to overturn the ban by persuading the Commission to authorize a category of commercial whaling known as Small Type Coastal …


What Drives Japanese Whaling Policy?, Christopher Bulter-Stroud Jun 2016

What Drives Japanese Whaling Policy?, Christopher Bulter-Stroud

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