Photo: Japan Courts Poorer Nations in Bid to End Whaling Ban



Greenpeace activists hold up a mock Japanese yen note featuring Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's portrait and the words "Please join the IWC" as delegates arrive at a seminar for sustainable whaling in Tokyo, Japan, on March 3, 2008.

The seminar, attended by many developing nations with no history of whaling, was seen by anti-whaling countries as the latest move in Japan's decade-long campaign to buy the votes it needs to overturn the International Whaling Commission's 1986 moratorium on commercial whale hunts.

Photograph by Katsumi Kasahara/AP Photo


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