Reference Library
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Asia - North America - North Atlantic - General
Asia Reference Library
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The History and Science of Whales
Komatsu, Masayuki and Misaki, Shigeko 2004
ISBN4-7890-1169-0 (See Review)
To order a copy please contact the WCW secretariat at: wcw@island.net
Whales and the Japanese
Komatsu, Masayuki and Misaki, Shigeko 2003 ( See Review )
ISBN4-9901-688-0-1
To order a copy please contact the WCW secretariat at: wcw@island.net
Arctic Adaptations: Native Whalers and Reindeer Herders of Northern Eurasia.
Krupnik, Igor I. 1987. Dartmouth NH & London UK, University Press of New England.
Sea hunters of Sireniki.
Milovsky, Alexander 1991. Natural History 1/91:31-36.
Sea Hunters of Indonesia.
Barnes, Robert H. 1996. 467 pp., plates, maps. Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-828070-X. ?50
The Last Whale Hunters.
Ishikawa, Bon 1997. [Lamalera, Indonesia, whaling photos; text in English & Japanese] Shinchocho, Tokyo. ISBN 4-10-419101-9 [Fax orders to 81-33-266-5111] ?4,700
Kujira to shounen no umi.
Kojima, Kotaro & Tomoko Egami 1997. [Lamalera whaling, Indonesia]. 190 pp, colour illustrations. Rironsha, Tokyo. ISBN 4-652-01132. [Fax orders to: 81-33-203-5794]
Small-Type Coastal Whaling in Japan : Report of an International Workshop
Akimichi, T., P. Asquith, H. Befu, T. Bestor, S. Braund, M. Freeman, H. Hardacre, M. Iwasaki, A. Kalland, L. Manderson, B. Moeran, J. Takahashi. 1988
This report details the history of coastal whaling in Japan and the nature of contemporary inshore whaling carried out from the four operational traditional whaling towns. The report details the organization of small-type coastal whaling, the commercial and non-commercial distribution of whale products, and the importance of whales as a source of food, identity, and social, economic and spiritual integration within the larger national culture.
116 pp. photos, illus. maps, tables. Canadian Circumpolar Institute, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 2E1, Canada. ISBN 0-919058-75-2 sc. Can$10.
Hunters of the Sea
Higuchi, Hideo. 1992
In Japanese. 201 pp. Photos, illus. Paperback. Hirakawa Publishing House, 3 Daiichi Nahan Toshikawa Bldg., 3-1-5 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. ISBN 4-89203-220-4. ¥3,500.
Japanese Whaling : End of an Era?
Kalland, Arne and Brian Moeran. 1992
Curzon Press, St. John's Studios, Church Road, Richmond, Surrey TW9 2QA, UK. 228 pp. photos, illus, tables, maps, index. ISBN 0-7007-0244-X.
ICR:
Denotes publications of the Institute of Cetacean Research , Tokyo Suisan Bldg., 4-18, Toyomi-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104. Tel.: +81-3-3536-6521; Fax: +81-3-3536-6522; kujira@mxc.meshnet.or.jp
Japanese Position on Whaling and Anti-whaling Campaign.
1998. 54 pp. Free. ICR
Old Cultural Heritage Surviving through New Resource Management of Whales.
1997. 54 pp. Free. ICR
Papers on Japanese Small-Type Coastal Whaling Submitted by the Govt. of Japan to the IWC 1986-95.
1996. 296 pp. Free. Hardcover and paperback. ICR
Seventh International Whaling Symposium : The Workshop on Community-Based Whaling.
1997. 139 pp. Free. ICR
Sixth International Whaling Symposium : The International Legal Workshop.
1996. 68 pp. Free. ICR
Fifth International Whaling Symposium : Sustainable Use, Wildlife and International Regimes, with Special Reference to Cetaceans.
1995. 77 pp. Free. ICR
Research on Whales.
1995. 38 pp. Free. ICR
Fourth International Whaling Symposium : Wildlife and Local Culture.
Background papers. 1994. 139 pp. Free. ICR
Whaling Issues and Japan's Whale Research.
1993. 56 pp. Free.
Legal Aspects of International Whaling Commission Activities.
1991. Interviews on whaling. 46 pp. Free. ICR
Who's Afraid of Compromise?
Ward, Simon (ed.). 1990. Interviews on whaling. 60 pp. Free. ICR