Word: shimonoseki
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...eating whale different from eating pigs or cows?' KEIJI FUJINO, a whale-meat butcher in the Japanese port of Shimonoseki, where Japan's largest whaling expedition in decades set sail...
KEIJI FUJINO, a whale-meat butcher in the Japanese port of Shimonoseki, where Japan's largest whaling expedition in decades set sail...
...past decade, the votes just weren't there. But in the whaling commission - set up in 1946 to provide for the conservation of whale stocks and promote orderly development of the whaling industry - there is always another meeting. Next May on its home turf - the southern whaling port of Shimonoseki - Japan will battle on. Japan, Norway and their allies did win two big fights, blocking the creation of new whale sanctuaries in the South Atlantic and the South Pacific. "There is no scientific basis for sanctuaries," said Minoru Morimoto, Japan's commissioner. His country is the only one that kills...