Japan’s New Whaling Supership Sets Sail
At odds with the rest of the world, Japan hews to its historic past
By: Gregory McCann
As the rest of the world has turned away from whaling, Japan, clinging to its historic past in the face of a 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling by the International Whaling Commission, has kitted itself out with the most advanced and powerful whaling vessel in history, a US$48 million “mothership” called the Kangei Maru, designed a…
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