AUST: New Japanese ambassador defends whale hunt
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Japan's new ambassador to Australia says the harvesting of whales is lawful and in line with international conventions. Taka-aki Kojima has just taken up his post in Canberra as the new Australian Government threatens to use Australia's Navy to track the Japanese whaling fleet. The Japanese vessels are now at sea on their way through the Pacific to the Antarctic Ocean to kill more than one-thousand whales - Japan's largest ever haul under what it describes as a scientific program.
Presenter: Graeme Dobell
Speakers: Taka-aki Kojima, Japan's new ambassador to Australia; Robert McLelland, Attorney-General Australia,
