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I’m not sympathetic to either side.

The Japanese claim of “whaling research” is clearly BS and the lefties trying to stop them are total idiots.

The Japanese whaling company Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha has a permit from the Japanese government to kill up to 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales in Antarctica this summer. Based on records of previous hunts, some 90 percent of these whales will be killed in the Australian Whale Sanctuary, the Humane Society said. "Australia's claim to sovereignty over the Australian Antarctic Territory is recognised only by four nations (New Zealand, France, Norway and the United Kingdom), themselves with asserted (and otherwise disputed) claims over various parts of the Antarctic land mass." "Japan rejects Australia's purported exercise of jurisdiction over waters that are considered by Japan to be the high seas," Judge Alsop wrote. "This is not a ground for invalidity of the EPBC Act: the sovereign claim by Australia to the Australian Antarctic Territory is not a matter capable of being questioned in this Court in this proceeding..." Judge Alsop ordered the company to stop whaling immediately. Sourcea
Everything is in the court system..seems ongoing. This all was in '08. Then in the Southern Ocean, the captain of the Japanese Whaling Vessel Yushin Maru No. 2 held as hostages two Sea Shepherd crew members from the conservation vessel Steve Irwin who attempted to 'inform him'(manner in which I don't know) that whaling is illegal.

Nakajima said that Japan's research whaling "is perfectly legal under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling" and that a review of the results of the research by the IWC's Scientific Committee concluded that "have the potential to improve management of minke whales in the Southern Hemisphere." "We are concerned that once again Greenpeace will use this opportunity to conduct more publicity stunts as part of the campaign that misinforms the public to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for the organization," Nakajima said. "We respect the right of safe, peaceful and lawful protest and urge Greenpeace to keep their activities within those limits," he said. "In the past this has definitely not been the case."

The Japanese claim of “whaling research” is clearly BS...

They seem to be researching how many tuna cans you can fill with one whale.