“WE URGE a halt to the emotional approach,” thundered the Yomiuri newspaper,
Japan’s largest daily. “Cool heads are needed when dealing with the issue.”
The “issue” is whaling. The whole thorny subject hit the headlines when Japan
expanded its “research” whaling operations into the North Pacific this summer
and the US imposed sanctions. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa also
weighed in with a demand that the debate should be “based on scientific logic,
rather than emotion”.
Japan says that all the emotion is coming from the whale-hugging hotheads
across the Pacific. Its own approach—which includes the idea that an end…
