{"id":743595,"date":"2015-11-30T12:32:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T04:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/?p=743595"},"modified":"2015-11-30T12:32:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T04:32:25","slug":"japan-says-to-resume-whaling-fleet-sails-to-antarctic-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/743595\/japan-says-to-resume-whaling-fleet-sails-to-antarctic-tuesday","title":{"rendered":"Japan says to resume whaling, fleet sails to Antarctic Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tokyo —\u00a0<\/span>Japan will dispatch a “research” whaling mission to the Antarctic Ocean on Tuesday, the government said, defying international criticism and despite a UN legal decision that such activity disguises commercial hunts.<\/span><\/p>\n “The research ships will depart for new whale research in the Antarctic on December 1, 2015,” the Fisheries Agency said Monday in a statement on its website.<\/span><\/p>\n Tokyo has for years come under intense global pressure to stop hunts that opponents decry as inhumane but that Japan says are an inherent part of its traditional culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The United Nations’ top legal body judged last year that Japan’s so-called scientific whaling activity in the Southern Ocean was\u00a0a front for commercial hunts.<\/span><\/p>\n The agency’s statement said the “research period” for the mission would be from late December to early March.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It will include a “mother ship” as well as three other vessels. A total of 160 crew members will participate, the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Japan will dispatch a “research” whaling mission to the Antarctic Ocean on Tuesday, the government said, defying international criticism and despite a UN legal decision that such activity disguises commercial hunts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,43],"tags":[73,519,1514,10221,919],"byline":[],"source":[206065],"column":[],"editor":[],"videographer":[],"position":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n