Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Institute of Cetacean Research is a Japanese government-sponsored institution. It took over from the Whale Research Institute (founded in 1947), which grew out of the Nakabe Scientific Research Centre (founded in 1941). The Whales Research Institute conducted research based on catches from commercial whaling. After the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling, the ICR was established to continue the "scientific research". Many environmental groups as well as some governments (Australia in particular) dismiss the Japanese research as "a disguise for commercial whaling, which is banned." The Institute has also been called the "Japanese's Government's whalers", and the Japanese government is reported to subsidise their operations with millions of dollars each year, despite the whale catch being sold commercially by the research program.

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