Is Japan Seeing Internal Shift on Whaling?

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While the current government has sworn to go after bloated programs, there are some members of the ruling Democratic Party who still support the country’s whale hunts. In the story, Tadamasa Kodaira, a lawmaker heading the pro-whaling bloc, says the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which has repeatedly harassed Japan’s whaling fleet when it is killing whales in international waters, has made its own task tougher:

“We can’t change now because it would look like giving in,” said Mr. Kodaira, a lawmaker from the northern island of Hokkaido. “Will we have to give up tuna next?”

My guess is Carl Safina, Barbara Block and Sylvia Earle would love to see that.

Yes, Tuna is next.