JAPANESE DELEGATION UNHAPPY THAT WHALES ARE SAFE UNTIL NEXT YEAR
 
"Those who seek to deny the legitimate cultural right of nations to resume harvesting of abundant whales for food only provide the incentive for us to look outside the IWC to achieve our goals," said Japan's whaling commissioner Minoru Morimoto, who is confused as to the precise meaning of "cultural right" and deeply concerned for all the Japanese people who are wasting away without whale meat, their number at last count being ZERO.

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