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US Joins Critics of Horrendous Japan Whaling
The UK, Australia and New Zealand have already urged Japan to call off this year's hunt, which will target humpback whales for the first time in decades.
Japan says the hunt is for scientific purposes and that the number of whales to be killed is too small to have a major impact on populations.
US officials say non-lethal techniques could achieve the same research goals.
The Japanese whaling fleet set sail on its five-month mission from the southern port of Shimonoseki on Sunday.
It has instructions to kill up to 1,000 whales.
As well as up to 900 minke whales and 50 fin whales, it will kill up to 50 humpback whales for the first time since a moratorium was introduced in the mid-1960s.
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