Japan threatens to resume whaling

Japan has threatened to resume commercial whaling after a suspension of over two decades.

The threat was issued alongside a demand for progress in negotiations at the International Whaling Commission, the body meant to act as a forum for mediation on the controversial issue. Japan holds firm to its perceived right to hunt whales and is reluctant to compromise, for fear it would encourage other legal restraints on related issues such as its extensive tuna fishing activities. Meanwhile, activists continue to speak out against Japan's continued exploitation of the 1986 memorandum on commercial whaling.

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