h1.pg-headline { font-weight: bold; } .zn-body-text h3 { font-weight: bold; clear:left; } Kushiro, Japan For the whale hunters, the inaugural expedition was a big success.
Hours after heading out to sea, their ships returned with the carcasses of two freshly harpooned minke whales, their huge, gaping maws draped off the sterns of the vessels. "The catch was much bigger than expected," said Yoshifumi Kai, chairman of the Japan Small-Type Whaling Association."I'm very happy.
I think its a disgrace.
Because men like to kill!
Terrible
Japan should think about its aging population, should think to open it's borders to foreigners willing to give all that they have to bring some dynamism and modernism to their beloved country, and not seeking to revive the Meiji era for ever. Living in the past isn't the solution
Where Sea Shepherds..
Why do we care? Is it because they are so big? What about all the little animals that we eat on a daily basis? And no, I'm not a vegan LOL
Arm beest 🙁☹️🙏🏻. Ze ontlopen hun straf niet want dit zijn de stofzuigers van de zee tbv de mensheid ☹️☹️🤔
So wrong!
Shame on you Japan!
Why for God’s sake? Yo satisfy what? Japan this has to stop!!!
BoSnerdley I love Japan but, they would kill everything in all the oceans of the earth to satisfy their desire for (exotic) seafood.
I wish that you have the same sentiments towards the unborn or born children! I guess the whales are more important
please don’t say “the country.” I’m so against it and i’m japanese. and No. no one choose to eat whale meat nowadays. we have other meats why should we!!!
it’s the human condition
Makes me want to cry for the whales. Tuna is on a decline, so let's kill whales. Absurd........
What difference does it make how many whales they kill? The whales will make more whales.. 😊
Why not just let it die..... there’s no reason to keep it going
What is next? Reviving Pearl Harbor?
shameful！
Because they kill everything that moves, like the chinese.
CNN is ignoring the fact that other countries are involved in whale hunting, including the US. The international treaty on whale hunting allows Native American tribes to hunt whales, for the same reasons that Japan is claiming (it's part of their culture).
No more Toyotas for me. FYI we have gotten 5 in the last 14 years.
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If there's no market for it, why DO it? Are they trying to say the population is too big? I think they'd have a hard time proving it.
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I now official hate Japan
It’s criminal, as is the ivory and Rhino horn trade. Those killings, for any reason, are as despicable as the US slaughter of Bison and Wolves. All have invaluable purpose. We endanger anything connected to that purpose, when needlessly kill them. Ban related US/Japanese trade.
You cannot be killing these creatures like this! We’re already killing enough by polluting their waters, poisoning them with plastic. Shame on the Japanese government
They also love slaughtering dolphins in japan.
And that’s the biggest question, it’s almost like they’re doing it as an FU at this point.
Like reviving the coal industry
Savages
Pobres crustáceos!
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No!! Stop this atrocity
I don't want anything to be extinct !!!!
This is a cruel act.
Should stay as a dying industry period...
Why?😱
They need to kill it before he start killing them😃😃😃
Man the torpedoes and sink whaling ships
Feels similar to our efforts in propping up the coal industry.
We all saw that South Park. We all know why
Pure cruelty
Dear Japan;
TommyFlanagan
STOP THEM
Shame 😡
Because the United States no longer has the power to keep them in line, that is why. With Trump in office, even our own allies are going back to evil behavior.
6th time you tweeted this story
Asshats
With a decline in fossil fuels, why is our country so committed to coal?
Vicious peoples ! Karma will coming soon to these peoples!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AKimCampbell Disgusting. Boycott Japanese goods until the stop the slaughter. Japan whales japanesewhalehunt
Little tiny men with little tiny penises trying to make themselves feel big by proving they can kill giant whales (psychology). JustSaying
The Trump Influence: move backward socially, politically and eliminate ethics from all decisions. TheTrumpEffect
Maybe there should be protest action at the Rugby World Cup in Japan to draw attention to this globally unacceptable practice.
Your missing a whale of a story...Epstein
Japan sees the US pull out of climate agreement and no repercussions to us. So they pull out of whale commission... anyone else see a pattern? The breakdown of international cooperation does not bode well for our planet.
It makes the country look bad! The rest of the world (except Norway and Iceland) sick. Although I am happy to see the whaling murder ships will stay home instead of invading the Arctic and N. Pacific! These are all of our whales not Japans as they migrate japantimes JapanGov
Disgusting
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It’s their culture and they’re doing it responsibly. At least they aren’t rounding up children fleeing murder into cages.
Disgcusting 👎☹️😢
Let's kill every sea animal🙄
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So they can have some reason not to commit suicide.
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GreenGirlAfrica harvross you two couldn't have missed this one. But you haven't made a single tweet about it, neither have most of the conservationists I've seen here. It's so much easier I guess to lecture to African countries than it would be against Japan
Boycott Japanese products
Little discernment of right and wrong. Although we are all guilty of this.
So sad😔
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Ya'll like to twist news for whatever reason how do you know that they don't have appetite for whale You like mind read the whole of Japan? Or are you just trying to make Japan look bad coz ya'll a bunch of vegans? StfuCNN
How come the TheDemocrats & AOC the left ARE NOT MAKING A BIG DEAL . These whales are part of the ecosystem part of the environment THE CLIMATE. If they are killed off the climate WILL CHANGE.
Guess they haven’t learned from the last huge tsunami!!!
You can eat cockroach instead. It's easier much to catch.
Grotesque, obscene, disgusting, inhuman, pointless, unnecessary. Humans are devils.
Such a barbaric sport.... a disgrace to the whole world
Notify aquaman
Like coal mining, this resurgence must be shunned
A great time for Submarines to start target practice on these ships!
So sad to😞 they need to worry about there population in declining cause the young are not reproducing like they should
America trying to bring back coal, Japan trying to bring back whales. Can't we just let industries die, and stop trying to spite the world?
Shame on Japan on its killing of whales which has been going on for decades now.
For CNN killing human is not a matter of concern. Childeren killed in sudan , Kashmir and plestine is important than killing of whale for eating. Wow
This does make me feel ... 💔
Whale, Chicken, Cow, Pig, please tell me what the difference is.
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Leave the whales alone BoycottJapan SaveTheWhales FuckJapan DontVisitJapan
Boycott Japanese products!
This is why I cannot feel sorry for people that get attacked by animals
Japan in dire need of soap?
Leave the damn whales alone
Whales are good just like any other fish
Why oh why do they kill whales?😢
as Japanese, Im trying to understand the culture but there is no clear explanation done by government. young generation like me have never tasted whales meet. Is it necessary to save this ' tradition' ...
It is obscene, there is no need to murder whales in this day and age !
The whalers should be shot
Don't call this ur effing culture! Your culture was primarily to respect all beings & practice balance. Just because your whale hunters lack other skills & the ability to find other occupations to support themselves, doesn't justify tormenting & killing these beautiful beings!
Our kind is the dumbest on the planet without any doubt.
God wont forgive us
Baby whales 🐳?
Y'all got anymore of those A bombs in storage? realDonaldTrump
Some industry’s need to die.
In the Antarctic campaign I went to sea with to battle the Japanese was never about the whales at all. It was about having some sort of consistent presence there for when technology allows the exploitation of the natural resources. In 2pics thats me in orange.
Because theyre in charge of expediting the end of humanity?
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Jap bastards
It’s called money
rickygervais
Industry of what? Blubber? People leave animals alone, stop, we have fire!
The Japanese moral compass points towards hell.
Bullshit
Wth!!!!
This is just disgusting!!! Completely unnecessary fgs!!!
Animal Rights Organisations should start asking people not to Eat Whale Meat, and as well as showcase it's negative effects on 🐋 and Environment! Hope Japan ban it again!!
Because they are insane
Another bad impact to Mother Nature
“Japan's Fisheries Agency has allocated the equivalent of about $463 million to supporting whaling for the 2019 fiscal year.” mistake, actually $46 million.
All animals are special, not just whales. All animals have an irreplaceable life and play a role in the ecosystem by eating and eating. Of course, humans are part of this ecosystem.
It’s too sad to even read!!
Please beat the shit out of those ships
敢对日本说不吗？
as much as i like japan... wtf japan
Japan has joined Trump in environmental destruction in the oceans. Nothing is safe from humans anymore.
Maybe for similar reasons Trump wants to bring back coal
and live the old history again. Whale culinary is part of it and pleases the fishers in the areas where Abe and those have their supporters
Ok
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They just lost a heck of a lot of cool points. Not Cool. Save the whales!!!
MarkTLive IvankaTrump & realDonaldTrump this is super fucked up. We , Mark & I, can't play with Japan if they're going to behave like this. Can you fix this quickly?
This is diagusting and SAVAGE! Just like the vile disgusting Chinese who are responsible for the slaughter of South African rhino and even our donkeys! THEY instead should be the ones who are slaughtered!
Pure Evil.
How about seaweed salad, Japan?
太糟糕了
Dear JPN_PMO I find this practice to be barbaric. As is the capture and slaughter of dolphins to feed the tourist trade. See Dolphin_Project. Please halt the killing of cetaceans. 🐳🐬💗
It’s far from the citizen’s wish. PM Abe and his buddies who are supremacists and want to turn the country back to the imperialism
Keep it up Japan with the whale killing and you might get bombed again.
A threat by the West of a boycott of Japanese products might make them rethink their brutality
Disgusting
No!! 👎
Idiots
Same reason people hunt and poach endangered animals. Compensation for their physical, emotional and cognitive shortcomings.
I guess that devastating earthquake and tsunami didn’t teach Japan its lesson yet.
The whale is SO BEAUTIFUL....how dare they start this shit up again
Stop killing the whales. Stupid
Sad
Hope they fall in the water and freeze to death
stopkillingwhales Time for a tourist boycott of Japan, Norway and Iceland where they still are hunting whales.
Why can CNN not find out why Japan is back-on commercial whaling
So disappointed in a so called civilized nation butchering this intelligent species. boycottjapan
LightObasi 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡😡😡
Me:
Guess in the next few years to come they will hunt all the whales in their Sea's leaving no whales for the next generation'it is very horrendous!
Guess in the next few years to come they will hunt all the whales for meat leaving no whales in the sea's for the generation, is very horrendous!
👎 I think it’s pretty piss poor. boycottjapan
America was just there and they said we don’t give a fuck let’s take pictures
Dis like button pressed
Ban Japan!!!
Shame on you, Japan.
So we must only eat what whites approve?
They eat all kinds of fish in the waters yet they can’t seem to let this one go!
its because whale and dorphin bombed hiroshima - image provided by usa
Ugh because they sell it to other asian countries aka China
It's because Japanese PM Abe and its democratic party are strongly supported by this industry and they want the industry's continuous support. I believe most Japanese are against the whaling.
Sad. 😞
This is terrible. japan tradition changes
Could be the Japanese way of saying the whales around the Fukushima coast is safe for eating 👀
Do you not ask the same question to Alaska, Russia, Norway, Korea? You have no excuses to ask Russia or have any disagreements. Readers will increase if you disagree, it is full of good things.
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It’s like the obsession with the coal industry here in America. Irrational enslavement to tradition at the expense of the environment and the ecosystem.
Being Japan I assume is the most absurd reason executed drone like.
Wake up sheeple
Unlike any other country in the world, Japan is never afraid of showing their younger kids the scenery of killing and slaughtering, sometimes they even let little kids rise chick or pig and kill by themselves when these animals grown . This country is brutal
Japan is engaged in criminal act as far as whaling is concerned.
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That’s just despicable.
I love how this was widely reported as Japan fishes first whales commercially in 30 years.. Bitch please. They've been doing this under the pretence of scientific research the whole damn time. 🙃
More importantly, are the whales sustainable?
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He literally said in the article he wanted the whales and the whale hunters to co exist....how tf
Next up. Bringing back coal. Embarrassed for u Japan.
This is a 🐳 of a story!
japan I hate you so much right now! BotschaftJapan
In the whole world it only japanese that kill whales at such a high rate. Do they use them to manufacture cars....why can't we boycott their cars and other products and see what happens next....
Haaays
Ever gone fishing? What's the difference?
Ar*eholes
christianrbno you know why
Oh man... I love Asian food and whales.... What to do?!?
Reviving a dying industry by killing endangered wildlife. Way to go Japan! Just another form of cultural seppuku.
Is there such thing as whale sushi?
This is medieval !!!
Why does everyone care about whales all of the sudden.
Stop it Japan, just stop it.
They still choose sticks over a fork. Their culture won’t let go of the past. Funny, being the most tech savvy people on earth.
With this sudden gust of hunting whales. I'm scared the future of whales will be in fossils. savemothernature savewidelife savetheearth
What a shame 🇯🇵.... Thats so sada
Defilement of the body.
That is disgusting. They should be ashamed of themselves. The world whale population is already in decline due to human impact.
Because whale meat tastes good? To some people.
That’s disgusting & unnecessary, why do we insist on going backwards?
Sickening!!!
Just plain disgusting! They are already struggling to find food rather than the plastic that is killing them, now your adding to their decline!
😤😤😤 peta please help take a stand for the whales 🐋💙
It's good to see how big countries are now uplifting their bans.. Few months ago Botswana uplifted the hunting ban and most journalists criticized that decision.
Куда смотрит ООН!
A big FuckYou to Japan BoycottJapan
Anyone else just thinking South Park when they see this?
Can anyone confirm this story is true? Being that cnn is reporting it......... anyways if true this sucks.
Japan is doing very good. Japan is hunting Minkey Whale which is/was not on endanger list and there are more than 1mil which is 10 times more than 100 years ago. Blue Whale is endangered and Minkey is one of biggest feeding competitor. 1 million of that huge animal is too much
Jap scum.
Sad day for whales. Anybody who consumes whale products for their own selfish satisfaction should leave the planet.
2 steps forward 10 steps back. Sad.☹️
Legit a south park episode
This is heartbreaking It truly makes me cry. I hate this
SAD.
Japan has a problem admitting it needs to let go of the past? I know tradition is a huge term but the reality is that traditions hold us back. It's the same problem where the older prideful men decide for the future and that's bad
Oh, nice step backward....
Why is a Native American tribe on the west coast, so committed to killing whales? You're acting like Japan is the only country that is involved in whale hunting.
What the HELL?!!!!!!!!!!
They put whales on tv at cnn right Brian stelter MAGACountry
Probably the same reason other Asian countries eat dog and other countries murder elephants and rhinos for sport.
They do love their sushi
Greed should not be allowed when it involves taking the lives of these majestic creatures who are more intelligent than some of the whale fishers.
There won't be whales soon enough then there will be no Industry
Whales deserve to live. AnimalKingdom
Democrats logic: BLAME IT ON TRUMP!!!
Why is trump so committed to killing people of color ?
Japanese people just like to kill shit.... ask china
Moab japan
People triggered again... LOL!
Its fcking barbaric,evil cruel!
This makes me so sad😢
F you Japan
No.....
They need to leave the damn whales alone
Hope their ships sink and they all die.
Very sad
Absolutely disgusting!!
Shame on you
Beautiful innocent whales!
I’d like to dismantle these whaling ships
May an apocalypse descend upon us and wipe our evil selves out. What irresponsible horror.
What SharfFin Soup is out of season?
Revive a dying industry? So now they are going for the kill at large? Insane, let that stupid industry dead forever!!!!
Time to start a tourism boycott of Japan, Norway & Iceland who still are hunting whales. We know Trump will do nothing.
Barbarians
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Some people should inderstand that there are things far more important than tradition.
I'm sick to my stomach....mankind destroying nature....
This makes me so mad!
I wish the human race would hurry up and die. Just hurry up and die
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They are a sick, sick people led by a tone deaf government that ignores international norms and laws because they can use 'culture' as an excuse to hunt endangered species for profit. The JapanGov disgusts me.
Maybe they could use coal to power their whaling fleet! Everything is new again in trumpistan!
👏proud murderers.....and ideed a dying industry, literally! No shame, no empathy, no feelings, no love,.......— no human!
A disgusting ignorant culture . The sooner the world wakes up the the bull 💩they have been telling and their business practices the better. I can not believe we are allowing this to happen.!!!!!!
All countries must shun the Japanese and sanction them into economic failure for destroying the whale population into extinction without a care
Whales were extinct by now if this ban was not put in effect. Japan should stop this
Most of the Japanese don’t eat a whale. But whale fisherman can't stop whaling for a political reason.
And coal is clean and beautiful.
What is the UN or whatever they are called doing seriously ?
I'm Japanese,but I'm so sad.
Not an important day for the Whales, when whale these killers stop!!
Noooooo! Humans are TERRIBLE. 😡😭
Shame on you japan 🇯🇵 😡
Hopefully that lift fails to remain!
Disgusting.
It should die and STAY dead. Hunting whales is a disgusting, outdated practice. Stop, JUST STOP!!! There is no need for it!!!!!! SaveTheWhales
Shame on you, Japan.
A dying industry. A sad pun. Hunting them to extinction.
Thanks Obama
And Trump's bringing back coal...
This doesn’t get a negative spin....Trump sneezes and he’s patient zero but this is fine...
I can’t even look at this picture. This is awful. 🐋🐳
This is sad.
And again america only watch.
Why? Big money for whale meat? They need to come into the 21st century and quit slaughtering theses majestic creatures. Shame on you Japanese people!
“Big Success”.... come on CNN. unfollow
`Of course it's a dying industry--it is no longer needed in modern times. Mankind is going to pay a heavy price someday for the destruction of this beautiful planet. May God forgive us
Big success
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Why?
Reviving a dying industry by killing a creature. Irony everywhere.
Fuck Japan.
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Japan's gone backwards. 👎
TF is wrong with people
Your headline reads like you're celebrating this. Disgusting.
Just what we need with the climate crisis & being in the Sixth Mass Extinction. More killing. 😡
Are you celebrating it ?
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Please stop 😢
It's better than killing countless innocents in Yemen...
Fucking tragic
How can they lift the ban Are they like blind and can’t see that we will make all the species go extinct Shame !!!!!
Disgusting
success?!!?
👎 this is so sad. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
FUBAR
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So sad
F**k you CNN for reporting on this.
It was a sad day...
Fuck Japan
This needs to stop. Whales are sentient creatures. This is morally indistinguishable from killing humans for food.
WTF?!?!?!?!?!
We dropped Little Boy, we dropped Fat Man but we forgot to Drop Uncle Larry.
where's that one guy