Lin Fangzheng, the chief of the Japanese cabinet official house, announced on May 9 that the Japanese government intends to add large -scale long beard whales to the hunting target on the list of commercial whaling species approved by the current approved.After Japan announced the withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) on December 26, 2018, it was immediately opened in 2019 to commercial whaling in Linghai and exclusive economic waters.
For a long time, Japanese business whaling involves various factors in economics, culture and environmental protection, and is essentially an extremely complex international political issue.The scope of whaling this time must be announced by the Cabinet's official house, which proves that this issue is highly politically politically.The demand for the domestic whale and meat in Tokyo is weak, but when facing the pressure of the strong international community, it is still lingering the world. It is obviously showing the national political will.
Japan has been hoping to continue whaling activities with various means for many years, and even in the face of international environmental protection groups, Australia has filed a complaint. Through the international court's lawsuit, Japan stated that Japan was named in scientific research and covered commercial whaling activities.Although Japan was defeated in March 2014 and was banned from continuing to continue to carry out whaling campaigns in the Antarctic waters, one year later, it continued to restart the whaling activities of Antarctic Sea based on the aforementioned judgment.Political will and social support.
It is often protested in the Antarctic waters, and many conflicts have erupted. In the eyes of international ecological conservation people, the messy whaling operation mother ship Ninchu, at the end of 2023, was eliminated in Xiaguan City at the end of 2023, and then there was a new whaling.The operation of the maternal ship closing whale pills undertake the function.From the beginning of Nikko Nikko, the Japanese government provided military -level electronic navigation equipment in order to hide dynamics, avoid ecological conservation people hindering whaling activities, and officially provided budget funding to build whalers and other phenomena.Non -pure fishery activities.
In fact, the Japanese government has publicly adjusted the whaling policy to the outside world, and the pace is obviously in cooperation with the whale pills to go out to the sea for the first time.Guan whale pill sail on May 21, and went to the northeast coast of Japan to implement the eight -month -old whale hunting operation.In contrast to the rise and fall of the Japanese whaling industry over the past 70 years, this historic milestone creation will be announced by the Japanese government to announce the adjustment of policies in a timely manner, ignoring the arbitrary and arbitration of international pressure, and the entire policy intention is clear.
Although the Japanese whaling industry has shrunk significantly, whale meat has continued to slip in the consumer market for a long time, and it must even be funded by the local government of Xiaguan City.Activities, launching whale meal promotion, hoping to attract young generations and maintain the tradition of eating whale meat; but obviously when they consume young customers with other meat products, they will be defeated by serious frustration.
Japanese whaling industry activities and listing whales as regular meals do have the economic value of historical traditions and specific periods.However, if the scope and social acceptance are carefully investigated, I am afraid that it is not as good as many people who support whalers, and they can be positioned as universal Japanese food cultural elements.The Japanese government insisted on continuing to promote and expand the scope of industrial operations, and even at the expense of directly against the international community. Among them, the gain and disadvantages of political calculations are not as simple as the outside world imagined.
If you think about Japan's insisting on dumping of the Fukushima nuclear power plant to suffer pollution and processed wastewater, compare the whale pills scheduled for whaling and hunting operations, and I have to say that Tokyo's political executives are indeed full of black humor and reviveThe sea area where the whaling industry opens operations will actually fall into the sea area where Fukushima is handled into the sea.I do n’t know if there is any association between the two, but the use of whale hunting as a means of dumping the nuclear treatment of water policy endorsement is really difficult to persuade.
No matter what, as long as Japanese whaling only provides domestic consumption, it should not cause greater controversy.
The author is a senior researcher at the Taiwan Chinese Strategy Society
