{"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":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tokyo &#8212;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s4\">Japan will dispatch a &#8220;research&#8221; 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<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s4\">&#8220;The research ships will depart for new whale research in the Antarctic on December 1, 2015,&#8221; the Fisheries Agency said Monday in a statement on its website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s4\">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<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s4\">The United Nations&#8217; top legal body judged last year that Japan&#8217;s so-called scientific whaling activity in the Southern Ocean was\u00a0a front for commercial hunts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">The agency&#8217;s statement said the &#8220;research period&#8221; for the mission would be from late December to early March.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It will include a &#8220;mother ship&#8221; as well as three other vessels. 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