21.   Japan also hunts whales under a program that permits killing the animals for research purposes.

22.   Japan maintains that permission to hunt whales should be based on scientific data, which it says proves that deep-sea whaling is possible if managed properly.

23.   Japan and Norway hunt both whales for domestic consumption but failed to open up international trade in the seagoing mammals.

24.   Japan hunts whales under an exemption to the ban that allows scientific research.

25.   Japan currently hunts whales under a program that permits killing the animals for research purposes, and the meat is later served in restaurants.

26.   Japan has accused the United States of hypocrisy for permitting an American Indian tribe to hunt whales while refusing the same right to traditional whalers in Japan.

27.   Japan, however, hunts whales under a program that permits killing the animals for research purposes, and the meat is later served in restaurants.

28.   Most other whales were hunted to near extinction, and are only now beginning to repopulate the oceans.

29.   No one here has ever hunted the whale.

30.   Norway is the only country that hunts whales for profit.