Defiant Japan to hold annual whale hunt

Ignores threat from conservation activists who have vowed to disrupt the programme

Japan has decided to go ahead with its annual whale hunt in the Antarctic Ocean this year despite threats from conservation activists who have vowed to disrupt the programme.

The country plans to send its whaling fleet in the sea around December amid tight security.

Japan will go ahead with its annual whale hunt in the Antarctic Ocean despite threats from conservation activists who have vowed to disrupt the programme
The country plans to send its whaling fleet in the sea around December amid tight security
Commercial whaling is banned since 1986 when International Whaling Commission put a moratorium on it
But Japan conducts whale hunts in the Antarctic and north western Pacific under an exception that allows limited kills for research purposes