We Japanese have eaten whale meat for at least thirty thousand years, and whale hunt had been big industry since the Edo Era. The reason why whale meat was on the diet was not the food shotage after WW2, but Japanese tradition. In fact, just before commercial whale hunt prohibitted, whale meat was so popular that fried whale meat was served in school lunch occasionally.
Most of the Japanese can't figure out the idea of total ban on whale hunt. We understand some whales like Blue Whale need to protect, but why we can't hunt the other whales, say, Minke Whales? Is there any difference between whale and tuna (or beef)?
We feel more and more antipathy to this idea of total ban because of the savage groups like Shepherd which bother the legal whale hunt. Now some of us see this idea as religious.
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We Japanese have eaten whale meat for at least thirty thousand years, and whale hunt had been big industry since the Edo Era. The reason why whale meat was on the diet was not the food shotage after WW2, but Japanese tradition. In fact, just before commercial whale hunt prohibitted, whale meat was so popular that fried whale meat was served in school lunch occasionally.
Most of the Japanese can't figure out the idea of total ban on whale hunt. We understand some whales like Blue Whale need to protect, but why we can't hunt the other whales, say, Minke Whales? Is there any difference between whale and tuna (or beef)?
We feel more and more antipathy to this idea of total ban because of the savage groups like Shepherd which bother the legal whale hunt. Now some of us see this idea as religious.