Summary
- Japan’s first domestically built whaling mothership, Kangei Maru, has a cruising range of 7,000 nautical miles.
- The operator has no plans to send the whaler to the Antarctic Ocean for commercial whaling due to high costs.
- Japan withdrew from the International Whaling Commission in 2019 and resumed commercial whaling in its territorial waters.
- The government plans to add large fin whales to its list of commercial whaling species, sparking concerns from animal rights groups.
