Japan’s New Whaling Supership Sets Sail

At odds with the rest of the world, Japan hews to its historic past

By: Gregory McCann

As the rest of the world has turned away from whaling, Japan, clinging to its historic past in the face of a 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling by the International Whaling Commission, has kitted itself out with the most advanced and powerful whaling vessel in history, a US$48 million “mothership” called the Kangei Maru, designed a…