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** EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT ** Children watch the head of a Baird's beaked whale, their first catch of the season, after the whale was butchered by the whaling company of Gaibo Hogei Corporation Ltd., in the port town of Wada, southeast of Tokyo, Sunday morning, June 21, 2009. The whaling firm is one of eight coastal whaling operations in Japan that hunt Beard's Beaked and Pilot whales, species not subject to the International Whaling Commission's 1986 ban on commercial whaling. The catch, measuring more than 10 meters in length, comes a week before the International Whaling Commission (IWC) are due to meet in Madeira, Portugal. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)