Whaling

I happen to like chickens, and would rather not eat or see them be eaten.

1) Chicken are cuter than whales.
2) Chicken are farmed, and the chickens you eat have not even seen daylight, the sea or breathed in fresh air
3) By killing one whale you can make enough whale burgers to feed a village for a month
4) To feed the same village with chicken nuggets, you have to kill millions of chickens
5) Before the whale got killed it had a wonderful life in the wild oceans
6) The whale gets killed by a harpoon with exploding warhead and dont suffer at all, but the chickens are killed in cruel ways

Any nation that depends on seafood to feed its people year round is obviously failing hard. If the Japanese are so smart, why don't they set up a solid agricultural system and feed its people real meat raised on farms instead?

They spend millions of dollars each year in dead end tech products. They should work on making themselves agriculturally independent. Just invest in some bulldozers and dynamite, flatten some mountains, and dredge up some soil to create more farm area, and in 10 years everyone in Japan would be able to afford to eat domestically produced hamburgers every day. If a mountainous country like Argentina can do it, a high tech country like Japan can too.