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[22] [2] She served in the whaling fleet until 1968, becoming the longest-serving Japanese factory ship. [23] Tonan Maru was scrapped in April 1971. Her aft portion and funnel, which had been blown off during the attack, were located in the lagoon, at a depth of 110 feet (34 m), on 5 January 1981.
Japanese whaling, in terms of active hunting of whales, is estimated by the Japan Whaling Association to have begun around the 12th century. [1] However, Japanese whaling on an industrial scale began around the 1890s when Japan started to participate in the modern whaling industry, at that time an industry in which many countries participated.
She worked as a whaling ship until 13 September 1941, when she was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy. [2] She was designated as an auxiliary submarine chaser at the Kure Naval District and her conversion was completed at the Innoshima, Hiroshima shipyard of Osaka Iron Works on 24 October 1941. [2]
The IJN Hashidate Maru was a Japanese Standard Merchant 1TL tanker built by Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation for Nippon Kaiyo Gyogyo K. K. It was built at Kobe, Japan and commissioned on 31 October 1944 to support the war effort by transporting oil, and was later refitted as a whaling factory ship.
Nisshin Maru No. 1 (11,803 tons) was originally a standard T2 oil tanker built in the United States during World War II. It was reconstructed by Taiyo Gyogyo in 1945 and commissioned as a Japanese whaling factory in 1946. [11] Nisshin Maru No. 1 was commissioned until the 1950/51 season.
The book "finds little evidence of Japan's supposed 9,000-year unbroken whaling tradition in modern factory-ship whaling," which would thus render Japan's twentieth century claims to qualify for exemptions from the International Whaling Commission's moratorium on commercial whaling based on a long indigenous cultural practice of whaling ...
Photo of a whaling station in Spitsbergen, Norway, 1907. This article discusses the history of whaling from prehistoric times up to the commencement of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986. Whaling has been an important subsistence and economic activity in multiple regions throughout human history.
Jūrō Oka (岡 十郎 Oka Jūrō, 27 July 1870 – 8 January 1923) was a Japanese businessman considered the "father of Japanese whaling". [1]In the 1890s oka travelled to the West to acquire whaling techniques and equipment, and in 1899 established Nihon En'yō Gyogyō K.K., which caught its first whale the following year with Norwegian gunner.