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Japan Announces Return to Commercial Whaling

Tokyo will also withdraw from conservation body, the International Whaling Commission.

Tokyo also announced plans to withdraw from the conservation body, the International Whaling Commission. We hear from one environmental campaigner who sees their withdrawal as an opportunity to create new sanctuaries.

Also in the programme: visualising cancer in three dimensions; and 2018 as seen through the eyes of a satirist.

(Picture: A whale. Credit: Getty Images / Barcroft Media.)

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Boxing Day 2018 10:06GMT
大象传媒 World Service

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