Japan to Use Tsunami Disaster Funds to Support Whaling

Byline: Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan is spending 2.3 billion yen ($29 million) from its supplementary budget for tsunami reconstruction to fund the country’s annual whale hunt in the Antarctic Ocean, a Japan fisheries official confirmed Dec. 8. Tatsuya Nakaoku, a fisheries agency official in charge of whaling, defended the move,...