What a sick country and culture!

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“Japan has for decades been steadfastly defiant about hunting whales despite widespread anger, including from key allies like the United States.

After roughly 30 years of what it has called "scientific research whaling", which saw several hundred Minke whales taken annually in the Antarctic and North Pacific, Japan will resume commercial whaling on 1 July.

The country announced it would confine its hunts to Japanese territorial waters but end its controversial annual expeditions to the Southern Ocean, following its withdrawal from the international whaling treaty last December.”