[GovernmentShrinker]

Keep in mind, though, that:

1) American hunters limit their deer and elk hunting to undisputed US sovereign territory, and

2) deer and elk being land-based creatures, the fate of the their populations here has no bearing on their fate anywhere else other than Canada (which as far as I know has never raised any objections to US hunters’ deer and elk hunting).

[Candor7]

Of course the facts you point out distinguish elk hunting from whaling. I meant for the analogy to deal with the social aspects of the problem in comparinng the two, not the differences between land based , non-sovereignty based issues of domestic hunting and whaling.

The social issues for the culture of both raise the same traditional cultural issues in Japan, get it?