B wrote:
> Declan Murphy wrote:
>> B wrote:
>>> goldrunt wrote:
>>>
>>>> You are right, I will keep listening because one can never know enough.
>>>> I am just here to share opinions, and B's Australian (I'm guessing)
>>>> opinion of Japan seems to be a bit antagonistic. Do you think Japanese
>>>> fishermen really should obey the loudest gaijin when it comes to
>>>> completely legal whale harvesting.  Also, no one cares if they are fish
>>>> or mammals.  Why is this important?
>>>
>>> Japan is explicitly stating this is a nationalistic thing.
>>
>> A "national interest" thing yes
> 
> No, "nationalistic". You failed to show any national interest.

They also go on at length with a made up history of always having eaten 
rice and insisting that the stickiest, most tasteless lumps were 
specially bred to be a delicacy worthy of 30 times the world market 
price for a 10 kilo bag.  And then you go to Singapore and see that the 
Japanese grocery stores are selling the same crap for less than a decent 
basmati.

>> So does would that mean that if the hunting was exclusively within the
>> Japanese EEZ, or even within the 12 nautical mile limits, and the boats
>> were hunting a very small and heavily regulated number of minke and
>> other balleen whales at rates well below the natural rate of
>> replacement, that such hunting would no longer be opposed by you on
>> these specific grounds?
> 
> Try filming in Taiji next you drop in.

I have Taiji picture stories and Wako picture stories.  Always best to 
be able to point at another white person and say distinctly in Japanese: 
"That's the Greenpeace activist over there, I'm just along to read the 
map."  The whaling villages are about as close as Japan gets to redneck 
havens ... except Tsuchiura, where the truly worst of the Tokyo black 
dump truck drivers call home.

CL