Flying B,
As several other posters have pointed out, there was small scale coastal whaling going going back into the mist of history, as there was with almost any country with a coastline and whales.
As I thought I made clear, I referred to industrial scale whaling. I suggest you look up any of the many good books written about the Allied occupation of Japan post WW11.
Sadly, the uncontrolled harvesting of krill probably poses a greater danger to whales than Japanese "research", but there are no dramatic pictures of blood and gore, so no media interest.
But a whale dying of starvation still ends up a dead whale.
Tootle pip!!
Last edited by LeadSled; 11th Jan 2010 at 13:23.