Published: November 15, 2018
Japanese fleet has departed for the southern ocean for a ‘scientific’ hunt, ignoring pleas for the practice to end
Prime minister Scott Morrison is being urged to personally raise Australia’s opposition to Japan’s unjustified “scientific” whaling program during talks with Japanese prime minister Shinzō Abe.
Abe today becomes the first Japanese leader to visit Darwin since Japan’s deadly 1942 bombing of the city. The visit comes just days after the Japanese whaling fleet departed for the southern ocean for a “scientific” hunt that could see as many as 333 minke whales killed.
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