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...culture at stake for Japan when it comes to whaling. Even though few Japanese ever sit down to a plate of whale sashimi, they still resist viscerally the idea that the international community could force Japan to stop whaling. A country that arguably never returned to full sovereignty after World War II - its constitution greatly limits its military, and U.S. armed forces are still based throughout Japan - can get tired of the world telling it what to do. As a Japanese chef told me at that whale festival in 2005, "If other people don't want to eat whale, that...
...with the noodles and spicy broth than it did with the whale. All in all, the experience made it hard for me to keep a straight face when people referred to whale as a "delicacy." It was like eating leftovers from a submarine. (See pictures of Japan and the world...
...neither is Japan. In part, the Japanese may be protecting their right to whale as a stand-in for a separate issue they actually care about: fishing for bluefin tuna, which is popular in sushi. The Japanese eat an estimated 80% of the world's catch of the species, which many scientists believe is in danger of being fished out of existence. If Japan holds the line on whaling, the argument goes, it would send a signal that limits on bluefin tuna aren't up for debate either...
...will push for a ban on international trade of the bluefin. Japan has already said it would oppose the ban, but Tokyo faces an uphill battle. "A ban is the only possibility to prevent a total collapse of this species," says Sergei Tudela, Atlantic bluefin tuna expert for the World Wildlife Fund...
...take one topical example: When you turned on your TV this past February to watch the 2010 Winter Olympics, one athlete you didn’t see was the world record-holder for ski jumping on Vancouver’s K95 hill, Lindsey Van. That’s because since 1998 the International Olympics Committee has refused every request to admit Women’s Ski Jumping as a recognized Olympic sport, while Men’s Ski Jumping has been included in the Olympics since the first modern games in 1924. In 2005, Gian Franco Kasper, a member...