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1. Introduction          Nikolas Sellheim Joji Morishita   2. A memoir – Japan’s Road to Withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC)            Joji Morishita Part I — Institutional implications 3. Exit Japan, exit IWC? Steinar Andresen David Aarvik Nese 4. As one door closes, does another open? Assessing the future of the protectionist agenda at the International Whaling Commission post-Japan’s withdrawal Cameron Jefferies Heather Stock 5. ’Opening up a procedure’: Might the re-adherence of Iceland to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling in 2002 provide an example for Japan to follow? Ed Couzens 6. Spill-over? CITES after Japan’s withdrawal from the Whaling Convention — a focus on Namibia and the SADC countries Nikolas Sellheim Part II — Cultural considerations Indigenous Whaling post-Japanese IWC Withdrawal Malgosia Fitzmaurice Agnes Rydberg 8. Lessons from the 1982 Canadian IWC Withdrawal and Restoration of Inuit Bowhead Hunting for Japan’s 2019 IWC Withdrawal and Restoration of Coastal Whaling Barry Scott Zellen 9. Whales as ‘sacred’ and ‘profane’ in IWC member state cultures Nikolas Sellheim Part III — Perspectives 10. The Commercial Impacts of Japan’s Withdrawal from the ICRW — A Commentary Gavin Carter 11. Whales on the Rise, the IWC Demise, and Global Environmental Diplomacy: An Epilogue to the Whaling Wars — A Commentary José Truda Palazzo, Jr.