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Monday 14 December 2009
Japan's Foreign Minister makes an understatement about an overstatement on whaling
From an interview with The Australian and ABC on 11th December 2009:
"When I met with your Foreign Minister Mr. Smith, I said to him when I described the situation: 'For the Japanese, whaling is equivalent to the Australian beef". I may have overstated, maybe I shouldn't have said that."
Yeah, talking up whaling in that way is definitely an overstatement - whale meat is getting harder to sell to the general public in Japan and beef consumption is on the rise over there with imported beef dominating the market - and "I shouldn't have said that" gets my prize for understatement of the month.
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