Fun facts: - Japan learned modern whaling (and bought ships/tools) from Norway, over 100 years ago - Norway's last catch of Minke whales (the only whales they

Fun facts: - Japan learned modern whaling (and bought ships/tools) from Norway, over 100 years ago - Norway's last catch of Minke whales (the only whales they hunt, supposedly) was about 1,052, out of an estimated ~100,000. - Japan has recently hunted a variety of threatened and endangered species, such as Beaked, Minke, Bryde's, Sei, Northern Fin, Humpback, Sperm, Western Gray, and North Pacific Right. - A significant percentage of whales caught are by-catch of other fishing operations, which critics claim is often intentional. - Since 1988, Japan has caught 16,323 whales through "Special Permit Catches". - The research group that does the whaling gets its funding from the Japanese government, and Kyodo Senpaku, the company that processes and markets the whale meat. - The International Court of Justice declared in 2014 that Japan's whaling was not for any scientific purpose. From these facts, I gather that the problem is that Norway is catching a "reasonable" amount of whales that are not threatened, and that Japan was catching endangered and threatened species in large numbers and lying about the intention behind it.