Japan Deal Roils Whaling Opponents ; Compromise Uses Loophole to Allow Villagers to Hunt

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Tension among countries over commercial whaling intensified this week after a compromise by Japan to refrain from hunting humpback whales was denounced by several nations at the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting in Anchorage, Alaska.

Japan, which for years has used a "scientific loophole" to hunt whales despite a 1986 international ban on commercial whaling, on Monday offered to halt plans to hunt 50 humpback whales in the South Pacific if its request for whale hunting by four coastal Japanese towns was accepted.

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Japan Deal Roils Whaling Opponents ; Compromise Uses Loophole to Allow Villagers to Hunt

Japan said the communities, which have a long whaling tradition, should be allowed to resume the practice under IWC rules that permit certain aboriginal communities, suc...

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