Reports on Japanese deal to scale back research whaling
Mark Willacy, North Asia correspondent
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Japanese media is reporting that the country's Fisheries Minister is considering scaling back research whaling in the Antarctic.
Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper is reporting that the Fisheries Minister Hirotaka Akamatsu will outline his proposal at the meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Morocco in June.
The plan to scale back Antarctic whaling in exchange for the resumption of commercial hunts of minke whales off Japan's coast represents a major shift in policy.
Japan is reportedly already discussing the proposal with anti-whaling nations like the United States, and pro-whaling countries like Norway.
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