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           Despite Ruling, Japan to Resume Whaling in Antarctic Ocean

   by Reuters

   Japan has decided to resume whaling in the Antarctic Ocean by the end
   of March after a hiatus since last year, a move likely to prompt
   international outrage.

   The International Court of Justice ruled in March last year that
   Japan's decades-old whale hunt in the Antarctic should stop, prompting
   Tokyo to cancel the bulk of its whaling for the 2014/2015 season.

   The Japanese Fisheries Agency on Friday notified the International
   Whaling Commission that Japan will resume whaling in the 2015/2016
   season under a revised plan.

   The plan, which calls for cutting annual minke whale catches by
   two-thirds to 333, is scientifically reasonable, the agency said in a
   document filed with the IWC.

   Japan began what it calls scientific whaling in 1987, a year after an
   international whaling moratorium took effect.

   Japan has long maintained that most whale species are not endangered
   and that eating whale is part of its food culture.
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