Saturday 2 February 2008

Going toe-to-toe on the whaling issue in Tokyo

Japan versus the rest of the world is how the issue of 'scientific research' whaling in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary is shaping up.
 
The U.S. based Pew Charitable Trusts through its environment group is now attempting to referee.
It called a two-day symposium in Tokyo and made this left field observation which may not meet with the approval of the International Whaling Commission.
"Tuiloma Neroni Slade, the chairman of the symposium, said a resolution of the row could include a recognition of wider hunting rights by Japan's coastal whalers, suspension of research whaling, and a limit on the number of animals that whaling nations can kill each year."
 
The Age yesterday reported on the Australia-Japan whaling impasse.
"Japan's prime minister insisted a bitter dispute over whaling won't hurt bilateral relations, a day after Australia expressed its disappointment as whalers resumed their hunt.----
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith is in Tokyo and has held talks with Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who sought to downplay any diplomatic fallout from the dispute.
"The whaling issue is a matter of each country's circumstances," Fukuda told reporters after the meeting, during which the whaling standoff was discussed.
"It should not negatively influence diplomatic relations.
"It's important to address the whaling issue in a calm manner."
Smith said he was disappointed the whalers had resumed their hunt in the Southern Ocean, killing five minke whales hours after he arrived in Tokyo on Thursday."

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