Shame on you, Japanese government. Shame on you.
1. This isn't about genocide
2. Being a "public servant" and thinking that you know better than people and should teach them better contradict each other.
3. Big brother is supposed to be a bad thing.
4. More generally, actual genocide tends to start with the Government believing that it knows better than the people, and that it's their job to teach them how to think "correctly" against their wishes.
Or basically, like I said in my first comment in the chain, politicians in a healthy democracy should be responsive to their own citizens first, not to foreign activist groups that don't represent that culture and never had to stand for election among those people.
Again, I had no intention of flaming anyone and if you noticed, I did not engage in any argument.
Most Japanese may support whaling, but don't actually eat the meat. The government has also been requiring whale meat in school lunches which has upset parents who don't want their kids eating whale meat, for either ethical reasons or the sheer amount of toxins that accumulate in whale meat.
Blaming the government is much more useful than blaming the public - policy can be changed, their position is articulated in press releases and documents. Trying to capture the diversity of the Japanese population and hold it accountable is an exercise in futility and is just muddying the waters.