The International Court of Justice has questioned the scientific value of Japan’s whaling program but questions remain as to whether the country will find another way to keep sending its ships. Transcript SARAH FERGUSON: The International Court of Justice may have ended what years of diplomacy and clashes on the high sea could not. Japan’s whaling in the Antarctic. Despite signing a moratorium on whaling in 1986, Japan continued to send a whaling fleet to the Southern Ocean. In 2010 Australia took Japan to the International Court challenging its claim that the hunting of the whales was for scientific purposes. Overnight that case was resolved. The court ruled 12 votes to four that Japan’s…
