Japan's Whaling In The Southern Oceans: An Annotated Bibliography

Japanese’s Whaling in the Southern Oceans: An Annotated Bibliography
Sand, Peter H. "Japan 's ‘Research Whaling’ In the Antarctic Southern Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean in the Face of the Endangered Species Convention (CITES)." Review of European Community & International Environmental Law 17.1 (2008): 56-71. Academic Search Complete. Web. 14 Nov. 2013. Sand talks about how Japanese whalers are taking more and more whales from the oceans near the artic and hunt whales for research purposes (56). Sands states that the whaling is of violation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and legal action can be taken against the Japanese whalers (56). This Paper will help talk about how
"Whale Wars: How to End the Violence on the High Seas." Journal of Maritime Law & Commerce 44.2 (2013): 135-168. Academic Search Complete. Web. 14 Nov. 2013. Doby talks about the war between the Sea Shepherd, an organization that confronts Japanese whalers in the ocean to stop them from killing whales, and the Japanese whaling fleet. The Sea Shepherd would track and attempt to stop the fleet of Japanese whaling ships (135). The war between the Japanese whalers and the Sea Shepherd has grabbed the attention of the media all over the world and caused various attentions to the Japanese whalers. The Sea Shepherd actions seen by the Japanese would be considered “terrorist” or “pirates,” but the Sea Shepherd believed that they are an environmental organization that are protecting the whales. This paper will help me talk about organizations that are fighting the whalers to protect whales in the Southern Ocean. I will also use it to talk about how the media sees the
"Is American Opposition to Whaling Anti-Japanese?." Asian Affairs: An American Review 27.2 (2000): 81. Academic Search Complete. Web. 15 Nov. 2013. Tanno and Toshihide discuss about how opposition from other countries on them whaling in the Southern Ocean is anti-Japanese meaning that they are against Japanese. The perspective that the Japanese receives from other nations is that there are evil whalers and immoral for killing whales (82). The Japanese believe that the anti-whaling campaign is anti-Japanese because on how it affects their whaling as well as bringing attention to all of Japan and causing them to look like an immoral nation for whaling. I will use this information to discuss how Japan’s seen for whaling as well as give a perspective of the Japanese