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A Woman Covers Her Nose as She Looks at a Butchered Baird's Beaked Whale
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JAPAN: June 30, 2008


A woman covers her nose as she looks at a butchered Baird's Beaked whale at Wada port in Minamiboso, southeast of Tokyo.


Whales emerged the big losers as a weeklong International Whaling Commission meeting wrapped up in Chile on Friday, conservation groups said after anti-whaling nations failed to halt No. 1 hunter Japan.



Story by Toru Hanai


Photo by TORU HANAI


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