Nobody owns those whales. The Japanese aren’t ‘poachers’ - they’re hunters.
The Japanese don’t tell us what meat we’re allowed to eat:- let’s try returning the favor. I hope those whales taste good, and I hope the Japanese keep whaling for a thousand years.
Google “Illegal Japanese Fishing”. The Japs routinely fish in anyone’s backyard they want to and most of this “hunting” of whales is done in Australia’s whale sanctuaries.
Sounds like poaching to me.