Finally in 2014, the International Court of Justice, the highest legal authority in the world delivered their verdict
that Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary was not
scientific and illegal. Japan at first agreed to honour the verdict and
last season for the first time since 1946, the Japanese whaling fleet
did not kill a single whale in the Southern Ocean waters around
Antarctica.
Japan now has
changed its mind with the announcement that they will return to kill
whales in defiance of the ICJ and they will back up their actions with
their military support. In other words declaring war on the whales and
anyone who defends them in complete defiance of international law.
Why? Because they are Japan and the Japanese government holds the
position that the Ocean is the domain of the empire of Japan and they
will go anywhere and do anything they wish to exploit life in the sea
and they will do so in defiance of international public opinion and
international legal judgements.
In November, the Humane Society
International in a move supported by Sea Shepherd will take Japan before
the Australian Federal Court to seek action from the government of
Australia to impose additional sanctions against Japan for killing
whales in the Australian Antarctic Territorial waters.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/28/new-legal-move-to-prevent-japan-from-whale-hunting-in-antarctic?CMP=share_btn_fb
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