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Conservationists fear Japan will continue whale slaughter with 'legal loopholes'
Tokyo has accepted the ban on hunting, but conservationists fear the government will seek loopholes to keep its cultural tradition alive
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Many Japanese consider eating whale meat a part of their culture, no different from eating beef or pork.

Whale meat gourmands were stunned.
"I can't accept this verdict," said Yutaka Sunaga, who runs the Kujiraya Taiju whale meat restaurant in Chiba, near Tokyo. "However you look at it, it's unreasonable to say we can't catch them. If you say you feel sorry for the whales, it's the same when you eat other types of animals."
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