10/01/10 22:42:55 qtvlVVgt0
岡田の抗議に以前の日本政府とは反応が違うとビビり始めたみたい。
It was Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada who broke the new administration's silence on
whaling by telling The Australian: "We do not think there is a need for a policy review".
And he didn't pretend, as predecessors did with foreign reporters, that the main purpose
of the Antarctic program was not obtaining food.
He just clearly enunciated the fundamental, unaltered Japanese position: whale meat is part
of Japan's cultural heritage; international law allows Japan to whale in open waters; Japan
isn't hunting threatened species; and if Australians have a cultural objection to hunting
whales, most Japanese find their eating kangaroos disgusting -- without encouraging vigilantes
to disrupt the Skippy-killing.
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