{"id":9951,"date":"2014-12-02T21:55:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T21:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=japan-submits-new-proposal-to-continue-scientific-whaling-program"},"modified":"2014-12-02T21:55:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T21:55:57","slug":"japan-submits-new-proposal-to-continue-scientific-whaling-program","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=japan-submits-new-proposal-to-continue-scientific-whaling-program","title":{"rendered":"Japan submits new proposal to continue &#8220;scientific&#8221; whaling program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year whales won a historic victory when the International Court of Justice ruled that Japan\u2019s scientific whaling program in the Antarctic was illegal and ordered it be ended, but Japan is back at it with plans to continue under a new proposal.\u00a0Despite a worldwide moratorium on commercial whaling that was put in place in 1986, Japan has continued with annual whale hunts that it claims are being conducted to collect scientific data. 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