Posts Tagged ‘ICJ’
Japan delays whaling to avoid US President’s visit to Japan
The Yomiuri Shimbun reports that the Japanese government ‘has decided to postpone the departure date for its whaling fleet, initially set for Tuesday, to Saturday or even later in the hope of avoiding tension with the international community ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Japan on Wednesday.’ The Japanese government appears to be…
Read MoreJapan should think carefully over its whaling in the North Pacific
Japan is still reeling from the ICJ decision that effectively ended its whaling this year in Antarctica. However, Japan’s whalers are awaiting guidance from the Japanese Government as to whether they can carry out their whaling in the North Pacific. Japan has an established Article VIII whaling programme in the North Pacific (JARPN) taking a…
Read MoreJapan’s Antarctic Whaling found to be in contravention of IWC and the moratorium
Japan has lost its case in the International Court of Justice in The Hague and told it is subject to the moratorium on whaling. All at WDC warmly welcomes the decision of the International Court (ICJ) in its comprehensive judgment on Japan’s Antarctic Whaling. My first reaction is that this is an historic day in the…
Read MoreAre Japanese whalers hunting whales from Australia?
Andrew Darby, author and friend of the whales, reports that ‘Australian scientists have tracked a minke whale from the Great Barrier Reef deep into the subantarctic for the first time’. There has been concern for some time that Japan has been hunting endangered minke whales in the North Pacific, but now it appears that minke…
Read MoreA second guest blog by Dr. Sidney Holt on the ICJ hearings
More about Scientific Whaling – 10 July 2013 The hearings today (10th July) at The Hague International Court of Justice, in the whaling case, in which Australia is challenging Japan, were fascinating but perhaps obscure to some viewers of the UN Web-stream. They were mostly about how Japan had calculated the catch ‘needs’ for scientific whale…
Read MoreA guest blog on the issues at the ICJ by Dr Sidney Holt
Thoughts on the case about ‘scientific whaling’ brought to the International Court of Justice by the Government of Australia against the Government of Japan by Sidney Holt By the end of the first week of hearings on this case in The Hague that began at the end of June, several excellent commentaries had been posted on…
Read MoreIt’s 1999 all over again
Japan’s arguments in the ICJ today reminded me of the 1999 ruling by the International Tribunal For the Law of the Sea with respect to Japan’s proposal to start ‘scientific tuna fishing’ for endangered Southern Bluefin tuna. Recently, Scientific American discussed the fact that Japan is not regulating some of its own fisheries on scientific…
Read MoreJapan’s strategy is a simple one – get around the IWC Commission
For many years we have been concerned that Japan has been trying to bypass the IWC Commission, the actual decision making body, and seek to load the Scientific Committee with it’s own scientists and invited friends, – and then rely on their support for its expanding commercial whaling programmes. Greenland and Denmark are currently trying…
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