( BBC ) - The Australian government has launched an anti-whaling message aimed at Japanese children on video-sharing internet site YouTube.
In the video, which carries Japanese subtitles, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull urges all countries to stop catching and killing whales.
The video includes footage of humpback whales, as well as Australian children proclaiming support for a whaling ban.
Japan opposes the international prohibition of commercial whaling.
Every year it hunts hundreds of whales in Antarctica under what it describes as a scientific research programme.
This year, it will hunt 50 humpback whales - an endangered species - as well as more than 900 minke whales, a move criticised by anti-whaling nations.