This is how low Japan will go

Japan -- blocking bluefin tuna fishing bans by influencing, encourages end to moratorium on whaling. For the latter, they've paid cash bribes and procured call girls for voting ministers.

That's LOW.

Revealed: Japan's bribes on whaling

Scandal of Japan's bribes over whaling

"Today The Sunday Times exposes how Japan has been using underhand tactics to try to overturn the ban. Small nations on the IWC have been systemically bribed with overseas aid, cash payments in envelopes and the offer of prostitutes. Although long suspected, these revelations — exposed by undercover reporters offering alternative bribes to smaller IWC members to support a continuation of the ban — are still shocking.

Japan’s bribes, together with the apparent inability of the European Union to speak with one voice because of Denmark’s support for a resumption of whaling, mean that a decision of enormous importance for the planet looks like being nodded through. A vote to lift the ban will in effect have been bought."

And I still think some whaling would be useful. But this is not the way to make it happen. But apparently also, it might work.