Whaling in Japan

Part III: What I Learned Whaling has become a popular topic with in the last few decades. It has been going on for centuries and was finally band in 1931 (Matera 3). But this didn’t stop the Japanese at all. By researching my topic I found that I did not know a lot about whaling, which made me want to dig even deeper. At the beginning of this process, I looked into Whaling. I already knew that there was a war going on between Japan and the United States because of the show Whale Wars, but I didn’t

Japan is one of the few countries that support the practice whaling. For decades, the country has continued to maintain its right to whale and shown aggressively lobbying with the International Whaling Commission (IWC) for reconsideration of commercial whaling. Commercial whaling is a practice that involves the hunting and killing whales for their oil meat, or whalebone. With their pro-stance on whaling, Japan has faced strong international criticism especially from environmentalists and Western

Since the 1986 Whaling moratorium, scientific whaling is the only whaling that the IWC (International Whaling Commission) using the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW) which allows a country’s government to issue permits to use lethal methods as long as the whaling is for science. Iceland and Norway were originally signatories of this ruling and stopped commercial whaling for a short period and only had scientific whaling however they have since broken apart from the

biodiversity arose with the International Whaling Commission (IWC), an international body that is set on goals to preserve whale stocks and regulate whaling as to help various species recover from near endangerment. Most all practices of hunting whales were banned along the globe but, exceptions were made in cases such as Japan; for alleged “scientific” purposes. The focus issues of this paper will stem from the controversy involving whaling, specifically in Japan, because while they justify their reasons

I. Introduction: For many decades, Japan is well-known as a dominant country conducting whaling practices for many purposes such as obtaining whale meat and oil (Facts-about-Japan, n.d.). Whaling has been one of the most important industry in Japan since the WW II post-war that provides huge amount of protein and helps fed Japanese citizens (Animal Planet, n.d.). It is believed that the coastal villages were where hunting whales was first claimed to take place in-shore with hand-thrown harpoons,

Whaling is a practice that has been going on for a long time. Whales have provided many different products over the years. Whale fat broken down for oil to light lamps. Whale bones were used at one point to make the hoops in skirts for fancy dresses. Whale meat used for well, meat. Many activists say that whaling is inhumane practice that should be stopped. In fact, commercial whaling is illegal under international law and the only whaling that is allowed for, is scientific research whaling. So,

An Exemption For Whaling For this week’s written assignment, I have chosen to address the Norwegian and Japanese positions on permitting whale hunting as a cultural exemption. As someone who was born in Norway, and has visited several whaling towns, I feel that I have some idea of the importance of whaling to Norwegian cultures and national identity. Although Japan is culturally and geographically a very different place to Norway, I feel that the importance of whaling to both cultures provides some

In an ever-expanding world where resource scarcity is discussed in side conversations and overpopulation is being combatted by concerned nations, worldwide struggle of equal allocation of vital resources persist. Biological resources and biodiversity in general are at the forefront of these concerns. Decreasing biodiversity does not just pose a problem for the plants and animals that are becoming increasingly endangered; individuals who have constructed their livelihood around the availability

of whales as a cultural exemption because I just don't approve of whaling in general. I can however see their point. For the majority of a population in a village to depend upon whaling as their main income and/or food source would be really difficult if it was banned. It would be a nice thing if their governments could help with job rehabilitation. Maybe even offer incentives to change their business venture. I feel like whaling is an archaic practice these days with so many other options to take

and Japanese position on permitting the hunting of non-endangered species of whales as a cultural exemption, because first of whaling or hunting is cruelty, we should not have to kill animals, which can get disappeared after a while. Even though they call it a research, hundreds of whales per year could not be hunted. In Japan, they say that, they had a tradition of whaling, but not all traditions are good, I mean killing whales could not be a good tradition. There are many bad traditions in the world