Why did the japanese start whaling?

Japanese people go whaling

The Japanese whaling season in the Antarctic is 89 days long

Protesting and intervening with whaling ships

They haven't. __________________ Infact Japanese Companies have called a meeting to decide whether to bring back Whaling Quotas. ~element ...

Yes, the Japanese still do some whaling . . . it is one of their basic foods. ...

Because it is a significant part of the Japanese economy

Not all whaling is Japanese whaling. They get the most fame because they kill many whale (almost 1000 in the southern ocean every year, along with hundreds off their coast). Norway, Iceland, and some aboriginal tribes also kill whales, but not as many as Japan. ...

== The Sea Shepherd is working hard to stop whaling and has had many successes in keeping Japanese whaling ships from killing whales. (See the link below) ...

1500bc References to the consumption of whale meat date back to Kojiki, the oldest surviving book in Japan, written in the eighth century. ...

Only about 20 Whaling vessels are still used today (Not including small fisherman boats which is used like in Faroe Islands. Nearly half is Japanese Whaling ships. ...

because if they try to stop them it will create a war between the Japanese and that country ...

Most people aren't aware that they are. It was presumed that primarily the Russians & Japanese are. ...

Rainbow Warrior by greenpeace

Their spears were blunt

People go against whaling so much because people ,like the Japanese, are killing the whales and that populations are starting to go down even more every time someone is whaling! ...

It isn't. Whaling in Japan exists purely for selfish reasons, such as luxury whale meat in top restaurants. Whaling is illegal by international law. So Japan are breaking the law. Iceland is also a whaling country. When Iceland made an application to join the European Union, they were rejected, purely because they allow whaling and Europe doesn't want to be associated with such illegal activity. Dozens of species of whales are on the brink of extinction because of whalers. There are many organisations trying to...

using water cannons and ramming greenpeace ships

They Go To Many, Once They Went To A Australian Port.

People first started whaling around 3000 BC. It sure was a Long long time ago! ...

So far Japanese have killed over 6,000 whales since the ban.

Whaling has been an activity for thousands of years, archealogical discoveries in South Korea suggest evidence of whaling occuring as early as 6000 BC. Commercial whaling is widely though to have begun in the late 1800s and early 1900s with the invention of various whaling devices such as the flexible harpoon and steam winches. ...

Yes Japanese Whaling Is A Sport, although it is a very cruel and intense sport. Most People do not participate in this crazy and cruel extravaganza. no Japanese whaling in the antarctic is not a sport not only is it illegal it is wrong and cruel and it takes 25 minutes for the whale to die and i think it's the same as walking outside and shoting someone in the head i SHAME the Japanese i will never by anything from japan again...

Japanese do a lot of whaling and they tell that they do this because of scientific experimentation but it is said that they do it for leisure and meat. :( ...

Primarily, the ban on commercial whaling. They've cut back on 'scientific' culling of whales for a few reasons... pressure from various international organizations, for one, and also a lack of sustainability, as the Japanese whaling fleet always operated at a substantial loss. ...

1500 B.C. Whaling has been going on for centuries. They are mostly killed for food, their blubber, and their insides which are used for most cosmetic products. ...