Whaling in japan can you help??

Question

Please help

What does Japan do with whales once they have killed them?
How is it affecting the world?
What is the number of whales dropping each year?
What are the good things about whaling?
What are the bad things about whaling?

If you know any of the answers please tell me

Thank you

Answer 1

Even the Alaskan Inuit in US does it as well every year.
Those inuit is killing more than 50 whales ever year. And the Maca(or Maka) race in Washington state also do it, they kills more than 100 a year. However, they are also for their life. World know it. Whaling nation has the right to keep their tradition. The minorities n US too. right?
Japan is not doing commercial whaling, it is banned. Japan does it legally and the numbers are allowed only 80-90 a year. It is LESSer than USA does.
It is called as "Research Program under Special Permit in the Antarctic". IWC know the number too.

The research is necessary to know how many marine resources, including fishes we eat, have been eaten by those whale every year.
Whaling countries know that not all whales are very rare anymore today, and some of them are eating and consuming tons of those marine resources in the the sea away every year. It causes a deficiency in some kind of fishes.
After the research, Japan sell the meat. cos Japan don't want to waste the whale's life. However, today people in Japan don't eat the meat very much. The market of those whale products have been shrinked today. Whale oil is no use for today's economy. The function of whale hunting and the industy have already been ceased basically. Research program is permitted to limited hunting ships.

Japan and other whaling nation are proposing to show the exact data of the research, including the numbers of the each whales.
But most of other anti-whaling nation do not join the research. They say they don't want to SEE THE DATA. Because they are afraid of knowing if the real data would show they are wrong.
They often try to switch the topic to the morals.


This kind of question can easily be an offence or denial for those whaling nations.
Japan is not only whaling nation.
If you wanna raise this topic, you better ask about other whaling nation together, about those minorities in US too.

http://www.highnorth.no/default.htm
http://www.jfa.maff.go.jp/whale/index.htm

This is whaling in US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling#United_States_whaling

Answer 2

There goes Joriental again. Jeez...he has to be working for the Japanese government.

The Japanese kill over 600 whales a year under the pretense of "research." It's a joke and all the non-whaling nations know it. The "research" that the Japanese pretend to be doing can now be done using modern equipment and technology WITHOUT KILLING whales. However, Japan and other whaling countries refuse to practice this methodology. This is, of course, because they really want the meat of the whale, not the phony research.

When you have whale restaurants opening all across the country, kiosks in towns offering free samples of whalemeat, and the Japanese government putting whale on the school lunch menu (!!!!!!!!!), you have no right to claim "research" as your reasoning.

I've included a few articles from three different years and three distinctly different news sources. It will show you that nothing has changed. Thankfully, Japan's bid to DOUBLE their whale kill to close to 1,000 annually was rejected.

80 whales a year? Yeah right mate. Wake up.

Also, if you want to really get your blood boiling, look into the massive yearly slaughter of DOLPHINS that goes on in Japan. Makes the whale hunt look amatuerish. 20,000 every year.

http://www.pbs.org/odyssey/odyssey/20050214_log_transcript.html

http://www.wspa-usa.org/pages/498_jan_04_tension_mounting_in_japan.cfm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/974656.stm

I don't mean to make it sound like I am bashing Japan. I really like Japan, I have lived and worked there, and on the whole, Japan is a very responsible global citizen. So, doing this kind of stuff really irks me, especially when there is no need for it!

Answer 3

the worry is the whaling foyer in Japan has performed the propaganda conflict in an fairly clever style. In Japan, the priority of whaling is very almost unreported and maximum eastern do no longer even see it as a controversy. while the whaling foyer and is challeneged by ability of international communities, they play the nationalism card at residing house to get public help and fairly denounce their accusers of racism. some thing approximately eastern lifestyle seems to offer them a elementary loss of appreciate for wildlife no be counted if it fairly is whales or different species.

Answer 4

Despite what others have said in their replies, few Japanese actually eat whale meat any more. True, Japan has centuries-old tradition of hunting whales. Unlike other countires that hunted whales, Japnese used every part of the whale so nothing went to waste. After beef and pork became popular about 100 years ago, the poularity of whale meat waned. The Japanese who are campaigning to resume whale hunting today are in the minority.

Answer 5

The Japanese use the whale for food, oil, and material. It is unfortunately decreasing the whale population in the world. However, commercial whaling in Japan is illegal now, and there is only limited whaling for scientific research.

The positive impact of whaling was that after World War II, food was scarce, so whales provided a cheap food source. Also, researching whales allows us to better understand the underwater ecosystem, etc.

Check out this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_Japan

Answer 6

I can give you few interesting factoid....

Many whales captured ends up on dinner tables on very exclusive and expensive restaurants. Oil are used in cosmetics and other industrial uses.

Before the world-wide near ban, whale meat were plentiful and prices were cheap. (around 1970s to early 80s) It was so cheap most people did not eat them and if they did, ashamed to admit they had to resort to eating such a cheap (and unflavorful) meat. They were often used in school lunches and prison food.

After the ban, just because it's rare and expensive, the popularity rose and now it is considered a delicacy. People pay good money to eat the meat.

To imagine what whale meat taste like, think of cheap cut of beef and take all the flavor out of it, then inject water....

Let me just say in good/bad thing about whaling... This is a very subjective question. Many places around the world, pork is considered a dirty meat. Cows are considered God - therefore forbidden to harm them. We (Americans) should not be using our standard to criticize people in other part of the world. We are (have been) doing equally bad things from their point of view.

Answer 7

The Japanese eat them. Whales should be saved because they can save you when you are on a submarine and you are attacked by a giant squid.