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While the team behind The Cove, the hidden-camera documentary about dolphin slaughter in Japan, was in Los Angeles last week accepting an Oscar for Best Documentary, it took a detour to help carry out another undercover sting operation - this time at a Santa Monica sushi restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Japan Keeps Fighting the Whale Wars | 3/13/2010 | See Source »

...accepted responsibility for serving whale, and now faces a fine of up to $200,000. As Andre Birotte Jr., a U.S. Attorney on the case, told the New York Times, "Someone should not be able to walk into a restaurant and order a plate of an endangered species." (See "Japan Gets Its First Chance to See The Cove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Japan Keeps Fighting the Whale Wars | 3/13/2010 | See Source »

Before you begin flooding the Internet with electronic hate mail - or contacting the nearest U.S. attorney - you should know that my eating whale was a onetime thing, as part of my reporting, and it happened in Japan, where eating whale is not only legal but sometimes considered a national right. (Japan is not the only country to refuse to accept the whaling ban, but it's the only one that pursues whale in any significant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Japan Keeps Fighting the Whale Wars | 3/13/2010 | See Source »

...June 2005 I attended an annual whale-tasting event held by the Japanese Whaling Association at the national legislature in Tokyo. Restaurants from around Japan served their best cetacean recipes - whale sushi, whale sashimi, whale on crackers, canned whale, whale with Osaka noodles - to black-suited Japanese legislators, who grazed from one table to the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Japan Keeps Fighting the Whale Wars | 3/13/2010 | See Source »

...Last summer, three crew members privately sought a probe into her handling of the Japan-based Cowpens. In her defense, Graf told investigators that she had "no recollection" of making such comments, and she "appeared incredulous at the accusations." Graf charged that a small group of disgruntled officers were spreading rumors among the crew "and convincing others that the command climate and [her] demeanor were far worse than they actually were." But she followed up with an email. "Many times I raised my tone (and used swear words) to ensure they knew this time, it was no kidding," she wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexism and the Navy's Female Captain Bligh | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

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