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		</div><p>Commercial whaling has recommenced in Japan after a 31-year hiatus.</p>
<p>Whaling boats embarked on their first commercial hunts since 1988 on Monday, more than three decades after Japan switched to so-called research whaling.</p>
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<p>The country&#8217;s Fisheries Agency said the catch quota through the end of this year is set at 227 whales, fewer than the 333 Japan hunted in the Antarctic in recent years.</p>
<p>The quota for this season&#8217;s catch, planned for release in late June, was withheld until Monday apparently to avoid criticism during the Group of 20 summit that concluded over the weekend in Osaka.</p>
<p>As the boats left port, whalers, their families and local officials in two major whaling towns, Shimonoseki in southwestern Japan, which is Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#8217;s electoral constituency, and Kushiro in the north, celebrated the fresh start, hoping for a safe return and a good harvest.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;We hope commercial whaling will be on track as soon as possible, contribute to local prosperity and carry on Japan&#8217;s rich whale culture to the next generation,&#8221;</em> Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasutoshi Nishimura told reporters in Tokyo.</p>
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<p>While the resumption of commercial whaling is condemned by many conservation groups, others see it as a face-saving way to let the government&#8217;s embattled and expensive whaling program gradually succumb to changing times and tastes.</p>
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