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Japan confirms it will quit IWC to resume commercial whaling

Japan is to leave the International Whaling Commission and resume commercial whaling for the first time in more than 30 years, the government said on Wednesday, in a move that has drawn international criticism.

The countrys fleet will resume commercial operations in July next 2019, the governments chief spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, said of the decision to defy the 1986 global ban on commercial whaling.

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Suga told reporters the countrys fleet would confine its hunts to Japanese territorial waters and exclusive economic zone, adding that its controversial annual expeditions to the Southern Ocean a major source of diplomatic friction between Tokyo and Canberra would end.

Source/more reading
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/26/japan-confirms-it-will-quit-iwc-to-resume-commercial-whaling

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