Violence has struck Kings IOK365sland and its affiliated sites in the past two years.

But Japan will not be able to continue the so-called scientific research hunts in the Antarctic and elsewhere that it has been exceptionally allowed as an IWC member.Japan joins Iceland and Norway in openly defying the IWCs ban on commercial whale hunting.OK365

Whale hunting has become a rare thorny subject in Japans otherwise largely amiable foreign policy.a senior official at the Fishery Agency.with Humane Society International saying Japan would become a pirate whaling nationOK365 killing these ocean leviathans completely outside the bounds of international law.

Japan has hunted whales for centuries.and he himself comes from a constituency where whale hunting remains popular.

It makes no secret however of the fact that meat from the expeditions ends up on dinner tables.

Tokyo has repeatedly threatened to pull out of the IWC.Much of the conduct underlying the federal charges against the freshman congressman was examined by the ethics subcommittee.

It is a disgusting politicized smear that shows the depths of how low our federal government has sunk.the subcommittee said in its report.

That vote fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to oust a member under the Constitution.The committee said it was also looking into an allegation of sexual misconduct from a person seeking employment in his congressional office.