Japan’s commercial whaling industry is set to resume on the 1st of July after a 30 year break, despite low demand for the meat and criticism from conservationists.
Japan’s government says it will confine its hunts to Japanese territorial waters as well as ending its controversial annual expeditions to the Southern Ocean, following its withdrawal from the international whaling treaty last December.
Japan withdrew from the global moratorium on whaling last December, after the International Court of Justice ruled Japan’s previous whale hunts were unscientific in 2014.