That's the reason I hate half the food in this country :nope:
Forced to eat it when I was young.

You know sauerkraut is not the biggest cultural shock about this country, we love to boil it before eating it. And that is one thing I can't touch. I'd rather eat pine bark :nope:

Let GREENPEACE loose on them and look the other way.

As suggested on the radio talking about this.

Will they still also look the other way when a Greenpeace ship gets itself damaged or sunk? Because you know that Japanese aren't going to just take it from those nuts.

Could always arm Greenpeace. :hmmm: Some of the mothballed ships in the USN would do the job. :yep:

After the stunt they pulled with Nazca lines I'm affraid they'd shell the great Buddha statue of kamakura

Good point.

Should make for some rather interesting news.

In all seriousness though, warships may well be the only way to go, for vessels using nets there are net cutters, we know this from the Cod Wars, but for vessels using harpoons, that's a bit harder. Perhaps patrols on known and suspected Japanese whalers in Antarctic waters with boarding and inspecting. Shouldn't need a major naval deployment, a handful of ships from the USN, RN, and French Navy could do the trick. Although in the case of the RN, a handful of ships is about all we actually have at the moment... :shifty:

But yes, anti-whaling patrols similar to the anti-trafficking and anti-piracy patrols already being undertaken. It'll tie up resources, but there's not much naval action at the moment, aside from TLAM firing at Syria which can be left to the subs.

Naval patrols cost money. Who would pay for this multi-national effort?

Members of the International Whaling Commission.

And when all the whaling ships are seized or sunk. What becomes of the International Whaling Commission?

The IWC needs those whaling ships.

Confiscate the boats, hide GPS trackers, sell to Daesh, wait a few days, bomb, confiscate again, sell scrap to India.

The only ships that would be seized or sunk would be those breaking the law as established by the IWC.
Of course, establishing that a crime has been committed would be the difficult part and thus would require a slightly more exact definition or limitation on how many whales each ship is allowed to kill 'for research'. Otherwise you get a Japanese whaler with a few dozen corpses on them and the Japanese saying "We couldn't get research any other way." :O:

私たちは、他の方法を研究することができませんでした。

That or the boat will transform into a giant mecha and stomp the patrol vessel. :hmmm: