Pro-whaling Japan has been wooing small, impoverished nations with foreign aid to persuade them to help overturn the 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling.

• 赞成商业捕鲸的日本一直不断以外交援助以换取贫穷小国的支持，说服他们协助日本推翻1986年的商业捕鲸中止条款。