{"id":722726,"date":"2010-04-23T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/japan-challenges-international-compromise-on-whaling-ban-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-23T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:19:00","slug":"japan-challenges-international-whaling-legalization-because-it-doesnt-let-them-kill-enough-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/722726","title":{"rendered":"Japan Challenges International Whaling Legalization Because It Doesn&#8217;t Let Them Kill Enough Whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bd1e95b7f8b9a5815b80000\/whale-meat.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"whale meat\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Japan immediately challenged a compromise on the whaling ban <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/environment\/article7105896.ece\">offered today<\/a> by the International Whaling Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Although the plan would legalize commercial whaling for the first time in 25 years, it would impose a 200 whales-per-year limit on the Land of the Rising Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Japan would rather continue killing 900 yearly, using the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100423\/wl_afp\/environmentwhalingiwc\">scientific research<\/a> loophole.<\/p>\n<p>Said Fisheries Minister Hirotaka Akamatsu: &#8220;Regarding the total catch allowed, it is different from Japan&#8217;s  position. We want to continue negotiating with patience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t miss: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/your-play-by-play-guide-to-the-great-deflationary-2010-4\">A Short Primer on the Deflationary Crisis In Japan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/japan-challenges-international-compromise-on-whaling-ban-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/a_n60f3B8CsaniOhx0RkGG8qHkw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/a_n60f3B8CsaniOhx0RkGG8qHkw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/a_n60f3B8CsaniOhx0RkGG8qHkw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/a_n60f3B8CsaniOhx0RkGG8qHkw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=rBqv2Cn4u5s:jKi-Ej2Xdvw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=rBqv2Cn4u5s:jKi-Ej2Xdvw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=rBqv2Cn4u5s:jKi-Ej2Xdvw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=rBqv2Cn4u5s:jKi-Ej2Xdvw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=rBqv2Cn4u5s:jKi-Ej2Xdvw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=rBqv2Cn4u5s:jKi-Ej2Xdvw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=rBqv2Cn4u5s:jKi-Ej2Xdvw:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=rBqv2Cn4u5s:jKi-Ej2Xdvw:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/greensheet\/~4\/rBqv2Cn4u5s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan immediately challenged a compromise on the whaling ban offered today by the International Whaling Commission. Although the plan would legalize commercial whaling for the first time in 25 years, it would impose a 200 whales-per-year limit on the Land of the Rising Sun. Japan would rather continue killing 900 yearly, using the scientific research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-320S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}