Japan was fined 8 billion yen by the International Whaling Commission for commercial whaling in Antarctica, Japan did not say anything, directly handed over the fine, but you punish, I do it, the Japanese on the one hand in the name of maintaining the world's natural environment, on the other hand is wantonly killing whales.
Japan is an island country, there is no way to develop agriculture in Japan, can only rely on fishing to survive, the earliest time the Japanese to eat whales can be traced back to the 12th century, that is, the southern song of the mainland during the southern song dynasty, during the southern song dynasty human beings are still in the era of farming.
Occasional earthquakes and cloudy weather in Japan have also made it impossible for this small island in the Pacific Ocean to be cultivated, so fishing has become a major livelihood guarantee in Japan.
But as you know, in the past, fishing was very unstable, and overfishing also affected the local fish environment, and this situation continued until around World War I, when Japan's fishing industry fished for hundreds of years without any repair measures.
During World War I, the fishing industry was able to maintain daily food expenses because of overfishing, but in order to prevent the army from cutting off food, Japan had to go to the deep sea to catch fish, until the Japanese fishing boats hunted a whale for the first time, such a huge whale directly withstood many days of fishing.
Such efficient work made Japan immediately decide to catch whales in large quantities, and during World War I, there were many canned whales, a large part of which was produced in Japan.
During World War II, it was even more unscrupulous fishing, and even reached the point of magic, and under such continuous fishing, Japan's whale meat reserves were also growing rapidly.
On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender to the mainland, and soon on September 2 of that year, the Axis powers surrendered, and with the end of the war, the food demand of the army also fell, but Japan was preparing for this protracted war because of its ambitions, and whale meat was stocked with thousands of pounds.
Now, when the war was over and Japan could only send whale meat to the people, whale meat became the first choice of many Japanese people at that time, and because the price was cheap at that time, Japan formed the habit of eating whale meat.
Although many people do not choose whale meat, the wave of whaling in Japan has not stopped, because the world's whales have been over-hunted, causing dissatisfaction among environmentalists.
Therefore, the International Whaling Commission adopted the Global Convention on the Ban of Whaling in 1986, which prohibits countries around the world from banning commercial whaling, but Japan has indeed found ways to exploit loopholes, and even more under the guise of scientific research, continues to fish aggressively.
Due to Japanese overfishing, whales in the Pacific have become extremely scarce, and the Japanese have gone to the Antarctic Ocean to fish, which has seriously violated the Global Convention against Whaling.
What's more, in 2018, Japanese whaling ships hunted a total of 122 female whales and 114 juvenile whales during a hunt, which finally alarmed the condemnation of the international community.
The International Whaling Commission unanimously decided to impose a fine of 8 billion yen on Japan, but the Japanese government immediately paid the fine and even offered another 5.1 billion yen to encourage people to hunt whales.
After this incident, the Japanese government, which did not want to sneak whalers, simply announced its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission, and announced the resumption of commercial whaling the following year.
In fact, the commercial value of whales is huge, Japan officially found this way, a whale can even be sold to about 100,000 yuan, this huge profit makes Japan hungry, after announcing the restart of commercial whaling, Japan is more free of self, basically every day hundreds of whales are caught by Japanese fishermen.
But their fishing methods have also changed, as if some strange switch has been opened, they have not limited themselves to killing, but have begun to kill, and Japan has become the country that kills the most whales in the world by means of despicable means.
It is no exaggeration to say that Japan's whale meat reserves have even exceeded nearly 10 million tons, Japan's whaling fishing boats have come ashore, there are many people to watch, they will put the caught whales into various poses to show their results, Japan also in order to make themselves better whaling.
Using a part of the money earned from whaling to support their whaling industry in some developed countries, while holding up the slogan of world environmental protection, you know, whales as one of the important systems of the marine food chain, the sharp decline in the number of whales can be imagined.
One of his enemies, the shark, is also growing in size to a certain extent, which adds a risk factor to the deep sea, knowing that every ecological environment in the world has a very important role.
Not to mention that as 70% of the world's space is the earth of the ocean, every link of the ocean is not predictable by human beings now, and secondly, we who are also pregnant with the next generation as a way of breastfeeding should not have such an act, in fact, the commercial fishing of whales still has to start from the United States.
On July 14, 1853, U.S. troops led by Matthew Perry opened the gates of Japan in a black fleet, which was in a closed country ruled by a shogunate.
Because the shogunate at that time, in order to strengthen its rule, implemented a policy of "locking the country" and "forbidding religion", and at the same time clearly stipulated that all foreign ships could not enter Japan for trade, and could only trade between Hirado and Nagasaki, which laid the groundwork for the United States to drop nuclear bombs on Nagasaki.
In 1623, during the ninth year of Japan's Yuan dynasty, trade between Britain and Portugal was banned, and since then, Japan has become a truly closed country, which lasted until the sixteenth year of Japan's Kanei period.
Many Western countries were trying to open the door to the East, and in 1853 the United States arrived with four black warships in the Uraga Waterway in Edo Bay, Japan, which is now Japan's Tokyo Bay.
A whale-like catastrophe ensued, as the U.S. military sought markets for new products made of them, so Matthew Perry was ordered to demand that Japan abandon its closed-door policy and engage in economic trade with the United States.
Of course, the Japanese shogunate was doing a great job in the local area, and suddenly an outsider wanted to order himself, so the shogunate turned its face to the United States, but at that time, the United States, as one of the great powers, his ships and weapons crushed Japan, and soon in 1854, the United States signed the "Kanagawa Treaty" with Japan, opening the door to the United States.
Because the United States was using whale oil lamps at that time, the raw material of this lamp was the oil extracted directly from whales, so the Americans established an American whaling base in the waters of Japan, and the demand for whales in the United States stimulated the Japanese whaling industry.
Because whales are mostly used for food in the eyes of the Japanese, there is not so much use, but seeing the great demand for whales in the United States, the Japanese are interested, because whales can be exchanged with the US military for new types of things, and more and more Japanese people are beginning to learn American whaling technology.
Their whaling technology is more efficient, not like before, a whale takes a long time to hunt, but the demand in the United States is ultimately limited, Japan is like an upstart, whales make money, they hunt on a large scale.
It is said that the number of whales killed in Japan at that time has exceeded that of the United States, but the demand for whales in the United States was not so large at that time, so Japan sold whales as canned food, and it was also at that time that a large amount of whale meat poured into the Japanese market, and more and more Japanese people began to like to eat whale meat.
Therefore, during World War II, Japan, which did not cultivate the source of food, fished heavily, and whale meat became a common food on the Japanese table at that time, because whale meat was rich in protein, and Americans gradually ate whale meat.
So they encouraged Japan at that time to hunt whales and eat whale meat, and Japan at that time deliberately proposed that it was an island country with scarce resources and fisheries as Japan's only source of income in order to cover up its own wanton hunting of whales.
So we follow the norms of human development. They have also developed a belief in their long-standing whaling culture that whales are too large and are among the top predators in the ecological food chain of the ocean.
If its number is not controlled from time to time, it will cause great changes in the marine biosphere, and I have to say that Japan really lies and believes it, so that many Japanese people now feel that not allowing the killing of whales is the sanction policy of other countries on Japan's economic development.
Japan's reflection on whaling is no less than that of World War II, when only 18.5 percent of the entire country said they should stop whaling, according to 2012 statistics.
In recent years, Japan has followed the slogan of maintaining the world's ecological environment, covering up a series of behaviors such as dumping nuclear wastewater into the ocean and killing whales.
In front of the public, it is good to bow down and maintain the environment one by one, but behind it is the "bloody killing" that cannot be stopped.
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