I recently watched an episode of “Whale Wars.” In it I learned that the Japanese government has given $22 million of international aid money, which was to benefit the tsunami victims, to the Japanese whaling industry.
I wonder just how many of those donors would have been on board if such a scheme were stated up front.
It is an indictment of the Japanese government and its feudal need to save face regarding an illegal fishery that it did not plan for or think to address the damage and expense that its catastrophe would bring to other Pacific Rim nations. …