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Japan is spending $29 million from its supplementary budget for tsunami reconstruction to fund the country's annual whaling hunt in the Antarctic Ocean, a fisheries official confirmed Thursday.
Mr. Nakaoku said the budget request was made to increase security and maintain the "stable operation" of Japan's research whaling, which has faced increasingly aggressive interference from boats with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
