This is bound to make a lot of people unhappy with Japan. A Japanese official with the Fisheries Agency has confirmed today that Japan will spend 2.3 billion yen ($29 million) from the country’s tsunami reconstruction budget to fund its annual research whaling expedition in the Antarctic Ocean. The whale hunting season will last through February, and media reports say 900 whales will be culled by the end of it.
The fisheries official said these funds will help whaling towns located along the devastated northeastern coast, as well as provide protection for all of Japan’s research whaling ships.
This is obviously bad news for whales in the Antarctic, but I do believe the funds will help people living in devastated whaling towns get back on their feet. Which is why I’m really conflicted about this whole deal… should I side with the whales or with the humans?
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