Women's Tales of Whaling

Women�s Tales of Whaling Life Stories of Eleven Japanese Women Who Live With Whaling by Junichi Takahashi

Published by Japan Whaling Association, Tokyo 1988, Soft bound, Excellent condition (light cover wear with bend at the lower front cover corner). This bi-language (English & Japanese) book was written to show the importance of the whaling industry to Japan. The book is sympathetic to the whaling industry and offers protest to decisions of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Junichi Takahashi is Associate Professor, Department of International Studies, Obirin College, Tokyo, Japan. The table of contents contains the following major headings: Reflections of a descendant of the legendary Wada family; A daughter of the coal company; When my husband left the factory ship; Do you know your father was a whaler?; Father and son on a Minke whale boat; Working among the Flensing workers; The story of a whale vendor in the snowy country; Grandma�s house; Nobody can take our food culture away; Many thanks to the whale � a dietician�s grass-roots movement; A housewife questions the whaling ban; Japanese tradition of whaling and the roles of women. The book is approximately 7 1/4 X 10 1/8 inches in size and contains 131 pages. Another copy of the book is currently offered on the Internet at Donald Hahn Books for $19.50. For more info about this other book, Visit:Book Web Site

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