they usually use them to make traditional medicines and they often eat the whales blubber
To kill whales.
Whales are still getting killed. Mostly by the Japanese for the meat but their official statment is for research...
Around 300 whales are taken by the Japanese for 'scientific reasons'.
the Japanese
Because many animals, including whales, can sense when there's about to be an earthquake, so the whales all left Japanese waters.
the Japanese are killing them to eat them
Antarctica.
An exact number for the population of whales is unknown so the percentage hunted by the Japanese cannot be calculated.
In 2010 the Japanese continued to defend that their research was extralegal and therefore continued harpooning whales.
Korean people do not hate and hunt whales. It is the japanese who kills whales for food. The chinese are reported to hunt whales on certain occasions.
because they're pricks
They can and do, whatever the rights or wrongs.