The UN has ruled that Japan’s “scientific” whaling is not scientific at all and ordered it put to a stop, and Japan has obeyed – causing much wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst aggrieved whale hating nationalists who argue all this is part of barbarian efforts to destroy Japanese culture.
The UN’s International Court of Justice ruled on a case brought against Japan by Australia in 2010, with an aggrieved Australia arguing that all the “scientific” whaling Japan conducted in its neighbouring Antarctic waters was in fact just commercial whaling as virtually everyone already knew.
The court agreed, and ordered that Japan withdraw all Antarctic whaling permits and cease issuing new ones.
Japan – one of the biggest contributors to UN coffers and in general fairly obedient to its whims – immediately announced it would obey the decision and halt the whaling.
It did begrudgingly complain that the ruling was “truly unfortunate and deeply disappointing.”
Whilst it is commonly argued by Japanese whaling advocates that eating whales is a glorious Japanese tradition only barbarian foreigners could possibly object to, it is generally understood that Japan only started commercial whaling in the modern period and its commitment to keeping it going under the pretense of research had more to do with political symbolism and kickbacks to the fishing industry than scientific interest in cetaceans.
However, since the ruling applies specifically to Antarctic research whaling, hunting whales and dolphins in Japanese territorial waters would appear to be unaffected, and whether Japan will feel up to legal schenanigans or will be allowed simply to restart the program in a different ocean remains to be seen.
The ruling has riled nationalists who were evidently hoping Abe and company would flout international law in order to spite the hairy Australian whale-lovers:
“Withdraw from the IWC! This is a huge failure for Abe!”
“It couldn’t be helped, anyone could see it was not research whaling but small scale commercial whaling. The issue now is whether they stop or withdraw from the IWC and start it again.”
“Who cares, only the tiniest minority of people ever actually eat whale. It is not very nice either.”
“It’s a deliberate concession from Japan. If they obey a losing verdict from the ICJ it puts them in a very favourable light when it comes to being a good international citizen and putting further issues to the ICJ – like Takeshima. This will weaken Korea’s position!”
“Just ignore the ICJ, they can’t adjudicate anything properly. Get back to full scale commercial whaling!”
“If there are too many whales they will eat all the fish and you will no longer be able to get any sushi!”
“Boycott all ozzie beef!”
“They’ll just withdraw from the IWC and restart commercial whaling I expect.”
“I always wondered why it was not possible to count whale numbers without killing every one you counted.”
“It is good they put a stop to this. Virtually nobody here eats the stuff but it causes massive hatred of Japanese overseas. I have never even heard of anyone who actually ate dolphin. Kind of like how virtually nobody here gives a damn about Yasukuni but they insist on visiting it and fueling endless anti-Japanese propaganda in response.”
“At least they put Sea Shepherd out of a job.”
“Maybe they can attack Alaskan natives now.”
“Suck it up barbarian Japs!”
“Die Austrokoreans!”
“So deeply disappointed!”
“Who really wants to eat whale that badly…”
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I think the Japanese are doing a good enough job destroying their own culture by lining up around the block for Starbucks or McDonalds every day LOL. Funny how they love to pick and choose parts of Western culture to claim for themselves while pretending that their own is sacred and precious.
Well, from the Japanese comments, I think quite a number of Japanese don't care either.
I mean, I've never heard of Whale being eaten in Japan on large scale.
yea. Its mostly the older generation I believe. Take Shark fin for example. If you ask someone who eats why they eat it. The main reason behind is it "tradition" or something like that.
I could be wrong though I only got this information from like one source with Gordon Ramsey.
The elderly should be left at the base of Mt Fuji and forgotten.
top kek
butthurt downvoter doesn't know what the suicide forest is and what Japan did to their elderly
Google "Whale Burgers".
Sorry japs, but no one believed that the home ofwhale burger fast food restaurants was actually doing any "research" by hunting whales.
I wanna try a whale burger.
There's irony here. Burger King used to call their fish sandwich the Whaler until they changed it to the BK Big Fish.
Ha, ha!
I wonder what whale tastes like I imagine it's gross but at this rate I'll never find out.
There are other countries that hunt whales and I don't see why not as long as they don't hunt endangered species.
Like long pig, now eat yourself.
The world is delicious! Everything is delicious! Even the bitter ones! And the ones that kill you!
FUCK YOU WHALE!
FUCK YOU CHICKEN AND COW!
FUCK YOU KOTARO!
FUCK YOU ANONYMOUS!
FUCK YOU WHITTO PIGGU!
Fuck you Narutard!
Fuck you weaboo!
FUCK YOU KOTARO!
it's HOWAITO PIGGU you FUCKING MORON
FUCK YOU KOTARO!!
07:16
no one cares, you FUCKING F-A-G-G-O-T
fuck you KOTAROOOOOO
fuck you kotarooooo
it's HOWAITO PIGGU you FUCKING MORON
Fuck You Dolphin!
sure, "tradition" .... like killing jews was a tradition back in the 40's and should not be objected :p
Since killing whales is an atroce crime, why don't you take care of corridas and such? Pathetic western people who believe they are convinced to superior. Believing to be superior was a tradition of nazis, you probably have a nazi lineage.
Assuming you're Japanese.. Weren't the Japanese and the Nazis both fighting on the same side, AKA the Axis? Hell, the Japanese called it the 枢軸国 or "Sūjikukoku". And the people who are against whaling are primarily descendants of the Allied forces? Hypocritical much?
Its the Japanese that fell in line with the Nazis. They're the ones who thought they were superior and invaded China among others. That's why all of the countries around Japan still hate it AND why we nuked the shit out of it. Whaling is just more Japanese imperialism that you should ALL be ashamed of.
None of the countries around Japan hate it. Only Korea and China. Korea is a Jew tier dog eating shit hole, and China is a murderous authoritarian state that needs to deflect political tension when it's own crimes against its people are far worse than anything Imperial Japan ever did.
Taiwan was a Japanese colony, and Taiwan loves Japan. Many older Taiwanese even reflected on Japanese era fondly. Taiwan didn't suddenly pretend to be victims, unlike Korea (the height of hypocrisy, since Koreans were legally Japanese, and served in the Imperial Japanese army.)
>None of the countries around Japan hate it.
He actually thinks that! toppest of kek. Japanese are hated throughout southeast asia. Japan is known for sex tourism and their was crimes throughout SEA. Ask a Thai whore what race she hates most and the answer will always be Japanese.
3:38 is smoking some good dope.
You should not eat whale. Whale is for oil.
I heard whale doesn't taste that good.
I've eaten whale when I visited Norway during my time in the Navy. The meat itself was very dry, but actually tasted pretty good.
That being said, I can't possibly imagine it being any sort of replacement for a cow or pig as far as taste goes.
Delicacies rarely do.
TRUE - like the ban against slavery goes against the culture legacy of the U.S.! IT IS IN THE FREAKING CONSTITUTION and the damn 14th amendment goes against 1000's of years of history and even goes against the Bible!!!!
THANK GAWD FOR PROGRESS!
Indeed...Times have changed. There are cultural traditions which should stay as they are and there are ones that should change, hunting whales should be banned decades ago.
As a developed country, they should have stopped doing it while ago.
The same goes for shark fins, rhino horns, bear bile, etc. in China. Though China bought exotic animal goods from other countries (most likely because the ones in their country are all hunted dry), they are almost the only consumer of it. In my opinion, if goods as such are banned in China, then there wouldn't be demands for them.
...seems like the UN is so focus on Japan, they aren't even bothered with China...or maybe too scared to bother them...
From conservation point of view, its doing a great favor banning such hunts. I mean how long do they want to continue to do it until the creatures they are hunting goes extinct?!
And as a nutritionist, I can tell you those items mentioned above does not have much nutrition value to them and can be replace by way more nutritious food/ingredients.
There are many traditions way more barbaric in Arab countries. Why don't you also talk about them? Ah yeah, you prefer to talk about asian because you know that asians are too well educated to reply. But since arabs don't let pathetic foreigners irrespectuously criticize them, you are too much of a coward to attack them.
Hypocritical cowards like you don't even deserve to live in this world.
Correct. Arabs are simply to ignorant to be bothered with. It'd be like trying to get a dog to stop eating poop, an exercise in futility.
Because that is not the subject of this post. There are many things that need to be looked at and be banned.
One step a time.
You are hypocritical, its very sad you yourself are so blinded by rage you dont see it.
Grow up.
It's alright guys, what he doesn't understand is i am an Asian too.
The fact that I talked about Asian countries is more because of I understand it since I am one. On the other hand, I may not have an good understanding of other cultures.
However, I can also that he is very disrespectful towards other cultures and races.
I can not his reply as 'educated' and just can't take any of it seriously.
So if you want to compare something now, you have to think of everything first and list them or be criticized?
Prepare yourself for this guy's essay length forum posts in the future people. Oh wait..
Also wtf is he getting at? Asians wont reply because they are educated? WAT? Tis guy beez herpinderpin in der head hardmodez.
i like your example.
It's also like trying to get an american to tell the truth, an exercise in futility.
why do they call camels "the ships of the desert" ?
because they're full of arab semen !
If you got your panties in a bunch because you're frustrated by who does and who doesn't, 'deserve to live in this world,' you're in for a life of disappointment. Welcome to the human race. I suggest you chill out and try the dip.
04:09 02/04/2014
No no no no!!! WHy gouo all AMAERICAN (= all inhabitants of the continet of America)
Focus just on shitty US people, now all Americans.
Thank you.
4:09 only better at lying is Japanese, and maybe British.
considering that most of your stuff came from them, i think it's a wise choice not to mess with them. sure, it kills employment rates of other nations but nothing beats inconspicuous slavery. and, as long as everybody's happy, it doesn't matter if the factory worker lives in a 4x4 room for the rest of their lives.
Fuck sharks.
If you like having your dick peeled like a banana by the skin of the shark, sure. Have at 'er.
If you have to eat the shark fin, why aren't you eating the rest of the shark?
They don't bother with China because China isn't developed enough to have a civilize talk. They know it's just useless with China and also some of the Arab countries.
Yes there are things that must change too, such as slave wages, uncontrolled human population breeding, and IQ testing for voting rights.
those things are banned in china
>freeing slaves
They should all be castrated before being released into the wild.
There are TONS of more TASTY and NUTRITIOUS fish out there GOD has created for humans. And I'm pretty sure Whale is not one of them!!
Depends on where you are. If you live in the Artic, you definitely want to eat a whale. Blubber is good energy source and can also be used as fuel. Rest of the meat can last you and your community a year, especially considering the frozen environment. Free freezer to preserve freshness and all that.