外国人記者が斬る！ 多くの納税者が知らない「国際捕鯨委員会」脱退の政治的背景

Not often that I agree with David McNeill, but I generally agree with the points that he makes in this interview.

This point in particular is particularly noteworthy and something I did not previously know.

これまで、私の母国アイルランドなどのＩＷＣ加盟国が日本に対し「公海での調査捕鯨をやめれば、日本沿岸での商業捕鯨を認める」といった妥協案を提示したことが何度かありましたが、日本はいずれも拒否してきました。しかし、今回のＩＷＣ脱退により、日本は事実上、妥協案を受け入れたということになります。

(Ireland had repeatedly proposed recognition of commercial whaling in Japanese waters if Japan would stop is "research whaling.  This compromise proposal was repeatedly rejected by Japan but Japan has essentially done the same thing with its recent withdrawl from the IWC.)