Japan’s decision to resume whaling in 2019 prompts international criticism
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Japan switched to what it calls research whaling after the IWC imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling in the 1980s.
Japan switched to what it calls research whaling after the IWC imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling in the 1980s.