"the Japenese are acting legally"
actually I think the dispute is that they are whaling in an international whale sanctuary designated so by the same commission who grants them the right to "research" whales and no government is willing to enforce it. Japan feels they can whale inside the sanctuary because sanctuaries only apply to "commercial" whaling not whaling for "scientific research".
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