TENSIONS are rising in the Antarctic following skirmishes last month between anti-whaling protesters and Japanese vessels they accuse of commercial whaling under the guise of research.
This week, Keiichi Nakajima, head of the Japan Whaling Association, to close their ports to the Steve Irwin, a ship run by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, on the grounds that it has committed “criminal acts” and endangered lives. Failure to do so, he said, would make them “complicit” in any further attacks. Australia has agreed to consider Japan’s request.
The Japanese Institute of…
