I totally agree with Mothballs on this one - go through the proper channels. The Australian PM, Kevin Rudd - seems to agree as well:
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/austral...llenge-3283925
However, you commit criminal acts of aggression against a ship in international waters, your asking for a response. I am amazed the Japanese haven't sent a single FF out with the fleet - and as soon as someone tries to foul a prop detain the lot of em and charge them as pirates.... or just sink them. When they first approach, first warn them away, and if they persist, let em do something criminal, and let em get what they have earned.
As for the question of whaling - the main target is Minke whale. Now - in 1985 the IWC estimated the Southern Hemisphere Minke whale population at 761,000 - with a 95% confidence rating on that estimate. The low and high numbers were 510,000 and 1.14 Million respectively. The Japanese have never taken more that 1100 whales in any recent year. That means if you use even the lowest estimate - the 510,000 number - the MOST they have taken amounts to 0.2% of the population....
This amount is definitely sustainable by any standard - so the idea that they are "raping the ocean" in this particular case is not factual. There may have been other instances where they did - but this is not one of them.
Also - its interesting to note that President Reagan closed American waters to Japanese whaling in 1988 over this issue....