Japan Will Conduct Pacific Whale Hunt In Wake Of Court Ruling

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Japan said on Friday it would conduct a sharply scaled down form of its annual Northwest Pacific whaling campaign this year despite an international court ruling last month against the mainstay of its whaling program in the Antarctic…

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