HarleyShogun comments

Shinzo Abe, you suffer from so much pride.

There is absolutely no real need whatsoever for Japan to embark on whaling, whether for research or otherwise. Everybody knows this.

Do you really think these intelligent creatures deserve to be destroyed, regardless of human gain?

Your manufacturing and technological prowess is superior to that of many countries, and Japan is the last country in the world that actually needs to resume whaling activities. So why do you insist on doing something so wrong when you have no reason to do so?

You talk about whaling as part of your culture; but that is an archaic view based on on a medieval past era.

Please bring your country into the modern age and do the right thing: stop the whaling and allow these intelligent mammals to live their lives without the threat of destruction that you currently seem to desperate to thrust upon them.

The world would respect you for such a decision.

Arigato.