On April 1 the International Court of Justice in The Hague ordered Japan to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary around Antarctica. Japan maintains that many whale species are not endangered, and last month Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to "increase efforts" to resume commercial whaling.
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