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- Japanese seize control of whaling commission
  Posted by Billbar from The Independent
  While the world has been looking the other way, the Japanese have spent nearly a decade and many millions of dollars building up a voting majority in the IWC, by buying the votes of small member states with substantial foreign aid packages.
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- Japanese fishers flee whaling
  Posted by Billbar from Smh.com
  Japanese fishing companies are giving up their whaling fleet under pressure from a consumer campaign, Greenpeace claims. But the operator of Japan's program, the government-backed Institute of Cetacean Research, vowed to redouble its efforts to maintain the only ocean-going whaling fleet in the world.
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- Dead whale left outside Japanese embassy
  Posted by Billbar from BBC News
  Greenpeace hauled the fin whale to Berlin from the Baltic coast after finding it beached on a sandbank.
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- Japanese whaler harpoon in near-miss with protesters
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  A Japanese whaling harpoon narrowly missed an inflatable boat carrying environmental protesters, causing one to fall into the freezing sea, as both sides warn their face-off is becoming increasingly dangerous.
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- Australia urges calm in southern whale protests
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  The Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise has been shadowing the Japanese whaling fleet for several weeks in a bid to disrupt Japan's annual whale hunt.
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- Greenpeace: Japan resumes whaling after escape bid
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  Greenpeace said the Japanese fleet managed to resume whaling later on Saturday and had killed five whales. Due to rough seas Greenpeace said it was unable to launch its inflatable boats to try and disrupt the whaling.
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- Japanese whalers and Greenpeace in remote ocean battle
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  A Japanese whaling fleet and Greenpeace environmental activists are involved in a stand-off in the remote Southern Ocean near the coast of Antarctica with the two sides accusing each other of ramming their vessels.
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25157 comments on:
Japan's Blue Whale and Minke Whale Hunt Ends

this is really sick someone should teach those japanese that blue whales aren’t supposed to be killed

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3:26 am 1/15/08
Jeff comments on:
Greenpeace: Japan resumes whaling after escape bid
Japan should stop whaling!
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1:03 pm 12/24/05

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Whaling

Japanese seize control of whaling commission

Japanese fishers flee whaling

Dead whale left outside Japanese embassy

Japanese whaler harpoon in near-miss with protesters

Australia urges calm in southern whale protests

Greenpeace: Japan resumes whaling after escape bid

Japanese whalers and Greenpeace in remote ocean battle

25157 comments on:

Japan's Blue Whale and Minke Whale Hunt Ends

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Greenpeace: Japan resumes whaling after escape bid

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