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Harpooned. Japan and the future of whaling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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The look on Nakamae Akira's face said it all. In the somber press conference that followed the end of the 2007 International Whaling Commission conference in Anchorage, the deputy director of Japan's Fisheries Agency was as impassive as an Alaskan iceberg. Japan's silk-smooth spokesman Morishita Joji as always did most of the talking. When Nakamae did eventually answer a single question after spending the bulk of the press conference staring out the window of the Hotel Captain Cook, he was brutally direct: “Why should we leave the IWC, we're not the problem.”

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 6 , June 2007 , e3
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