How Japan is buying control of the IWC
Publication date: May 2002
Summary
The Fisheries Agency of Japan, despairing of convincing other Countries at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to vote for a resumption of commercial whaling, decided in 1999 to escalate their vote buying offensive and provide themselves with a majority of votes at the IWC. At that time Japan already controlled the votes of 7 IWC members, six from the Eastern Caribbean. By targeting poor developing countries and offering substantial sums of fisheries development aid in exchange of votes at the IWC, Japan has already secured the support of ten countries.
