The Japanese Government and the pacifist people it represents are on a collision course with Australasia over whaling.
It is bad enough that they continue to slaughter the relatively small minke whales on spurious research grounds. Or that they kill highly intelligent dolphins, or that they continue to blindly overfish migratory tuna to the extent these mighty fish will one day be gone. Now they are proposing to kill fin whales and the mysterious and gentle humpbacks, both species that are still threatened.
Hunted to the brink, humpbacks have been protected since 1986 when commercial whaling was banned. Now Japan…