It makes little difference to me why the whalers are harvesting their quarry. What they are doing is LEGAL and that means they have a right to harvest.
The same can be said for those "activists" who enter the woods during deer season and raise a ruckus to spook the deer. Pop a few of them and let them feel the sting of the consequences of their actions.
These are the caliber of posts that some can point to as hate speech. Advocating murdering some PETA nut in the woods makes you someone that might need Japan’s special type of research.