Int'l court rules against Japanese whaling

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken March 31, 2014, shows whale dishes at Murasaki, a restaurant specializing in such dishes, in Osaka, western Japan. Japan lost a court case lodged by Australia seeking an end to Japanese whaling in the Antarctic Ocean the same day, as the U.N. court ruled Japan's whale hunting is not conducted for scientific purposes and ordered the whaling to stop.

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