Japan Refuses To Kick Its Whale-Killing Habit

A loophole in the 1986 International Whaling Commission moratorium allows killing
of whales for "scientific research."

Japan kills 30 whales in first post-ICJ hunt (via AFP)

Japan has slaughtered 30 minke whales off its northeast coast, in the first hunt since the UN's top court ordered Tokyo to stop killing the animals in the Antarctic, the government said. The Japanese whaling fleet that left the northeastern fishing…