During the 20th century, Japan was heavily involved in commercial whaling until the International Whaling Commission moratorium on commercial whaling went into effect in 1986. They still are heavily into whaling today due to the technology of the ships they use can catch, slice and dice, package, and air lift them out to be sold before anyone has the chance to catch them. The Japanese say that they are catching whales in order to perform scientific research on them. I call bull$&!+.
