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Mmm, I guess in the poaching areas, the charities and so forth that made the career switches possible all had the backing of whichever government was in charge. Without backing from the Japanese government, it wouldn't happen.
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True. So pissing off Japanese people and their government is the worst strategy I believe.
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Ooh, perfect! It'll take me a little while to work through all the Japanese so out of interest, which species IS Taichi targeting, because I'm getting a little muddled with the article news speak. Just the Japanese name is fine.
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This particular article says it was マゴンドウ so it's probably コビレゴンドウ（
Short-finned pilot whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). They caught 100 bottle nose dolphins in this turn of hunting, kept 10 of them to sell them to aquariums and released the rest.
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I think after Minamata, and the controversy that is STILL ongoing, the last thing they are going to allow is mis-labelling of meat for consumption. Can you imagine? It'd be like them selling beef labelled as venison during a BSE scare.
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Yeah, plus, I heard Dolphin meat smells very strong. If I ordered beef and got hare meat instead, I'd be mad.