Whaling in Japan

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A humpback whale slaps its tail on the surface of the water off the shore of the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, March 8, 2008. Warning: the following pictures contain images of whale carcasses. (Issei Kato/Reuters)
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Fishermen strip the blubber from a nine-meter Baird's beaked whale in Wada, a whaling village on Japan’s Pacific coast. (Justin McCurry/GlobalPost)
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Fishermen strip the blubber from a nine-meter Baird's beaked whale in Wada, a whaling village on Japan’s Pacific coast. (Justin McCurry/GlobalPost)
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