David @ Tokyo

Hi! David-san,

To me,Minister Chris Carter is much smarter than Rudd of AU, because he doesn't have intention to send navy vessels to save LOVELY whales.

To Aussuies,whales seems to be so important to send navy vessels,to the Japanese,(may be to the other pro-whaling countries)that is ridiculous indeed even if the vessels are used as political ways.


In fact,in Japanese news paper, there is no article in reference to the strange topic because the Japanese do not send JSDF vessels to save kangaroos :-)

I feel it rather good for Aussies not to let many Japanese know the election war for the sake of themselves.

Recently some Japanese news paper have begun to release the safty of U.S Beef again.

I do not hope it is linked with the result of Aussies's noise,though.

Y/H(Japan)
 

True - the difference is that Chris Carter is in power, where as Rudd is trying to gain power. He can say whatever he likes at this stage.

Hideki Moronuki of the JFA was contacted by Australian media about the suggestions, but he didn't comment on them, as they weren't Australian policy.
 

Given NZ only has 2 warships of significant size (and these are mere frigates), any threat from NZ is unlikely to be credible anyway.

I note that the Maui doplhin is reputed to now have a population of somewhere betwee 50 and 100 animals, with around 25 females of breeding age.

Perhaps if the Japanese were to catch and drown the whales in nets, the anti-whaling countries would be satisfied ;-).
 

Indeed, the strange thing about the whaling controversy is that the real subject of protest is the ICR's programme targeting the world's most abundant baleen whale species, the Antarctic minke.

Little if anything is said about whaling in the western north Pacific, and even less about by-catch in set nets in Japanese waters.

For most critics from New Zealand this doesn't seem to have much to do with conservation per se...

Also close to home for Kiwis:
http://www.fiordlandbottlenosedolphins.blogspot.com/