Japan stops whaling in the Antarctic, picks it up in the Pacific

You win some, you lose some.   After international pressure to stop whaling in the Antarctic, Japan has started up in the Pacific.   http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27079462

I have to ask - why?  People in Japan don't eat whale meat.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/9330828/Seventy-five-per-cent-of-Japanese-whale-meat-unsold.html

You don't really learn much that we don't already know by killing them.   "He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."  --J.R.R. Tolkien