When Japan first entered the Antaretic whaling industry, rather sud~ denly in 1034 with the Tonan Maru it'"ereated a furore in international whaling circles, specially in Britain and Norway, it was seen that this porlended formidable competition from a country which, with its energetic and economical methods and Prices, had. invaded. so many world Frarkets, was now. encroaching on another preserve hitherto held by the Western nations, Since 1924 efforts had been made fo get Japan into some sort of an international whaling conference, and though Japanese representatives. at-{ended conference In 1930 at Berlin, they refused to adhere to. the freoment reached because the other countries rejected the Japanese proposal to exclude the North Pacific tunless Soviet Russia also joined the agreement, At that time Japan was operating only in. the North Pacific, mostly In waters adjacent {0 Japan.
When Japan entered the Antarctic industry, further efforts were made, specially by British Interests (0 get hier to enter into an agreement for restricting the industry for the pur pose of protecting both the market fand the whales themselves, Japan refused, however, up to and including: the conference held in' London in 1937, The Japanese, having come rather late inia the feid, feared that efforts would be made to restrict their one rations onthe basis of their then comparatively small fleet, so. they wanted to wait until they had more vessels and would be able to negoll: fate on more equal terms, They want fed to make sure of getting their fair share in the race for exploiting a rich eld by numerous countries,
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