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** FILE ** Whaling gunner Yasuaki Sasaki of Kyodo Senpaku Co, Ltd. swings around a one-ton harpoon shooter on a swivel to show how to take aim at a whale aboard the Toshimaru No. 25 whaling boat anchored at a port in Shimonoseki, southwestern Japan, in this April 25, 2002, file photo. Along with the global movement over the past few decades to ban whaling altogether, a lower profile but equally heated debate is simmering over how whales might be hunted in a more humane manner. (AP Photo/Chiaki Tsukumo,File)