Current Affairs – Japan announces IWC withdrawal, will resume commercial whaling

27 December 2018 Current Affairs:

Japan is withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and will resume commercial whaling in July 2019, in a move expected to spark international criticism.

The IWC, established in 1946 to conserve and manage the world’s whale and cetacean population, introduced a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986.

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