There are many things which outsiders do not understand about a country's view of what is important for its own sovereignty.
I, for instance, am constantly amazed that so many British people seem to think that membership of the EU somehow interferes with their sovereignty (but
please, let us not start a discussion on this theme...
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!). In the same way, I am regularly amazed to see that, for many Japanese people (even some of my best friends), the desire of other countries to stop the Japanese whaling industry seems like an attack on their national sovereignty and their freedom to govern their country as they themselves see fit.
We have not yet found the best way of convincing the Japanese that they themselves may wish to stop... particularly those of the villages whose livelihood depends on the whale kill...