Photo: Japan Threatens to Quit Whaling Body, Ending Turbulent Meeting

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Hiroshi Nakada, mayor of Yokohama, Japan, speaks at the annual International Whaling Commission meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, on May 31, 2007. Japan had just announced that it was canceling a bid to host the 2009 meeting in Yokohama following Tokyo's failed bid to lift an IWC moratorium on commercial whaling.



Photograph by P. Parameswaran/AFP/Getty Images

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