Japan: No change to whaling program
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Japan's new centre-left government says that it will not change the country's policy on scientific research whaling.
Conservation groups had hoped the new government would review the whaling program, but in an interview the Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada told the ABC there was no need for a policy review on whaling.
He says the average Japanese wanted to continue consuming whale meat.
"It might be there is something Australians eat but the Japanese do not. Food is an important element of culture" Mr Okada said.
The Japanese whaling fleet is expected to arrive in the Southern Ocean in about a week's time to begin the hunt for minke and fin whales.
Conservation groups had hoped the new government would review the whaling program, but in an interview the Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada told the ABC there was no need for a policy review on whaling.
He says the average Japanese wanted to continue consuming whale meat.
"It might be there is something Australians eat but the Japanese do not. Food is an important element of culture" Mr Okada said.
The Japanese whaling fleet is expected to arrive in the Southern Ocean in about a week's time to begin the hunt for minke and fin whales.
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