article_snippet.sent: Toshiaki Kishiro, head of Cetacean Resources at Japan's National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries, said while it was possible
article_snippet.sent: Speaking to the Telegraph Telegraph said: 'This area of Japan has had many similar cases of beachings in the past, and especially of this species, so we are trying to find out why This area of Japan happens.'
article_snippet.sent: Efforts to save the dolphins stood in marked contrast to the global view of Japan and Japan relationship with cetaceans.
article_snippet.sent: Despite international opprobrium, Japan hunts minke and pilot whales off Japan coast, and has for many years also pursued the mammals in the Antarctic Ocean, where it takes advantage of a scientific exemption to an international moratorium on whaling.
article_snippet.sent: A United Nations court ruled last year that the Antarctic hunt was a commercial venture masquerading as research, prompting Tokyo to suspend operations, but A United Nations court vowed to redesign the programme to make the programme more scientific.
article_snippet.sent: The International Whaling Commission's (IWC) panel of experts said today that The International Whaling Commission's (IWC) panel of experts opposed Japan's proposal for The International Whaling Commission's (IWC) panel of experts scientific research whaling programme, saying The International Whaling Commission's (IWC) panel of experts did not demonstrate a need for killing whales.