Recent Key Posts on Whaling

As we approach the time when the Japanese whaling fleet is expected to set sail for Antarctica, there have been a number of interesting blogs on whaling.

Jess Kingston, Director of Asian Studies at Temple University recently wrote this in the Japan Times:

Thus, the decision to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean is a major blunder on Japan’s part because it undermines its rule-of-law diplomacy. Japan’s defiance of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ruled that its whaling-for-research program in Antarctic waters violates the 1986 moratorium of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), is a major setback because, in doing so, Japan is exempting itself from the same rule of law it otherwise assiduously upholds.

You can see the rest of what he had to say HERE.

These key recent posts include this one from the Humane Society's Mike Markarian focused on the win by HSI-Australia in the Australian courts against Japan and the wider context to whaling.

And here WDC's Chris Butler-Stroud comments on support from some quarters for making a deal with the whaling nations