Showing posts with label Japanese whale research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese whale research. Show all posts

Thursday, January 07, 2010

Japanese Whale Research

The recent news about Japanese whale research vessels colliding with a protestors boat made me think.
I began to ask myself these questions, what sort of research are the Japanese conducting?
Where are the research results?
Thank God for the internet, the answers were just waiting for me at the click of a few keys.
Here is the link to the research results. http://www.icrwhale.org/pdf/JARPAdata.pdf

Those of you who bother to check out the results might find something more significant than me, a mere layman and certainly not a whale scientist or marine biologist. Of course, stomach contents seems a bit of research overkill (pardon the pun) to justify killing whales in the name of research.

I think the research results speak for themselves.
The Japanese have a very serious attitude to "losing face" usually rectified only by hara-kiri.

In reference to their published whale research results, I think a lot of hara- kiri is not only necessary but to be expected very soon.

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