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Japan: Coastal Whaling

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 @ 04:03 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: Japan
Topics:: Environment, Agriculture

Shisaku discusses the Japan government's decision on the revival of commercial coastal whaling, in particular its relation to local politics.

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