“Japanese respect (or “worship” would be the right word) whales, like any other living things on the Earth.”

I understand, that’s why Japanese make dog food out of whales:
http://www.wdcs.org/dan/publishing.nsf/allweb/38F865D143F73D29802571110037169A

Japanese adore whales so much they even waste millions of taxpayers money each year: “In essence, the government uses taxpayer money to persuade taxpayers to eat whales hunted with taxpayer money.” Source:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CEED6123BF93BA15756C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

“There is shrines for whales where whales are treated as gods and people thank them.”

Do you think of the factory ship Nisshin Maru, where money is the god and uninformed guys like you as well as the whalers themselves bow before it? Modern industrialized whaling has nothing to do with the century old Japanese whaling tradition and its shrines. Or did Japanese hunters and gatherers paddle all the way down to Antarctica to hunt whales? Modern whaling was introduced by General McArthur after WW2 to figth starvation in Japan.

You’re right, “It is not 1940’s”, i.e. Japanese don’t need whale meat any longer and should have abandoned their whaling practices for a long time. And Japanese should have learned to obey international agreements that prohibit commercial whaling. Instead, Japan tells lies to the world by pretending to do research.

If Japanese people rever whales so much, why do they feel the need to disguise their wholesale slaughter of these creatures ion the name of “scientific research”

Why do they enter other countries’ territorial waters and international protected waters (namely the Great Southern Ocean) to persue and kill them.

They International Whaling Commission does a pretty poor job of hding the fact that the wahles will neither be protected or their hunting controlled.

Call it what it is - whale hunting (hasn’t changed in a few hundred years) !

My question is: what will you tell your children when all the whales are dead ?

Before making a uninformed comment, you should learn what you are going to say.

Japanese respect (or “worship” would be the right word) whales, like any other living things on the Earth. All part of a whale is valuable and has some use for people’s life. not only the oil that the Westerner were interested in, but meat, bone, baleen, etc., etc. There is shrines for whales where whales are treated as gods and people thank them.

It is not 1940’s so you don’t have to do stupid propaganda to paint other kind of people with inhumane tone.

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/644933/page/0

Some evidence of Whale activity.

Placemark: Just missed him / Google Earth

Placemark: Missed again / Google Earth

Some evidence of Whale activity.

Just missed him

Missed again