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I respectfully disagree with the statement that whaling is not a significant part of their culture.

Whaling is certainly a part of Japanese culture. The consumption of whale in Japan is thought to have gone on for as long as 14,000 years, pretty much since the beginning of the Holocene.

Whaling has reportedly gone on in Japan since the 1570s. What changed in the 20th century was the capability of traveling further and further from Japan for the whales.

I stumbled upon something called "the Whaling Library" and its "whaling statistics". Sorry I'm not more facil with posting links. Just google "the Whaling Library".

Its an interesting, but odd site. It gives you as many questions as answers!

You can click any year from 1910 onward and it will show a table divided by whale species, and by nation. But if you click 2011 it only gives you 2010. But thats still recent.

Actually it gives you two tables: one for the North Pacific, and one for the Antarctic.

It classifies the type of "operation". Whale kills by the USA, the USSR, and Denmark (really Greenland) are all classed as "aboriginal subsistence" (ie tribal folks are allowed some leeway). Japan is called "special permit". Some countries' kills are called "under objection" ( dont know what that means. Do they mean OVER the objections of the IWC?).

What puzzles me about the Whaling Library site is that it divides the whaling world into just two oceans: the Antarctic, and the North Pacific. Yet they give stats on what Greenland Eskimos kill in their own local waters (which are the Atlantic) . I guess it must be a whaling industry convention to divide the world's oceans into just two fisheries (with the atlantic lumped in with the antarctic).

People in other parts of the world have been whaling for longer then that. There is nothing uniquely Japanese about it. Again only a small percentage of Japanese people even eat whale.

Ok so you only have seen one website? Why did you say "ALL THE WEBSITES"?

According to the website you refer to me;

2007-2008 and Summer 2008
Japan - 551
Norway - 536

2008-2009 and Summer 2009
Japan - 681
Norway - 484

2009-2010 and Summer 2010
Japan - 508
Norway - 468

These numbers clearly contradicts what you claimed in your earlier post: "since 2008 Japan has killed twice as many whales as Norway"

Stop lying.

What am I missing here? How did this topic jump into PPR?

Go back to the first grade and learn to read, and learn to add, before you accuse people of lying.

And you outta move out of that glass house as well!

You lied yourself by ignoring the data on the same page of that same site that your yourself sited.

Look at BOTH tables and ADD both figures. Japan killed twice as many whales in '09, and half again as many as Norway in 2010.

They confirm,not conradict what I said.

And...you're welcome.

My pleasure helping you find that site.

those poor whales.