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The excuse of Japan to do whaling was "research". Why should research affect food? With this article it seems Japan Today denounces under wraps that whales are used for food and not for research. So it is a good time to ban whaling. Food and research are different things.

Shintoism is not anymore a fascist religion. Fascism came as it was turned int a way to give everything to the emperor, a twisted version of shintoist giving nature. Nowadays it is more tradition than anything else.

It is weird that media presents whaling and dolphin hunting as "traditional". A tradition usually is widely know by population.

And given the dishonorable nature of whaling because it takes more than it receives, it would be dishonorable according to the tradition of shintoism.

Does it mean that Japanese should take instead of receiving? If that's the case, then Japanese should also take company property, assets and data for their use. Under the "take more than you receive" principle, they also should rob temples and loot graveyards and offer relatives the chance of paying ransom for returning the remnants of the dead... Hmmm, I do not think decent Japanese may want to abandon the noble honor of shintoist giving nature.

Average Japanese people are good, not dishonorable enough to engage in whaling or loot graveyards.

Japanese respect the dead. People in western countries respect whales and dolphins. What would Japanese think if Westerners showed disrespect towards the dead?

The honorable tradition of Shintoism is about giving more than receiving. But in the case of dolphin and whale hunting, Japanese hunters take more than they give to the sea. So it makes it dishonorable, and environmentally unsustainable.

There may be no more commercial fish stocks left in the sea by 2050, according to a new study cataloguing the global collapse of marine ecosystems.

See http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10433-no-more-seafood-by-2050.html

So the end of Japanese food will come with fish being an endangered species due to the dishonorable habit of taking more than giving to the sea.