Despite several rulings from International Court of Justice other international conservation bodies, the Japanese government in November announced that it will resume whaling in Antarctica. Australia has now threatened Japan that it will be taking a legal action against its decision to resume whaling.

The Australian minister for foreign affairs, Julie Bishop, in a statement published online on Monday, said, “The Australian government does not support what is a deeply disappointing decision by Japan, and we will continue to raise our concerns at the highest level of the Japanese government”.

He mentioned that the Australian government is also working with other nations to build an international consensus over Japan’s whaling program. Australia is also looking forward to some a strong legal action over Japan.

Japan in November 2015 openly said that it will resume whaling in the Antarctica after an almost one year of halt.

The International Court of Justice said last year that Japan should put a hat on whaling in the Southern Ocean. An International Whaling Committee panel also said in April this year that Tokyo had yet to present the objective and need for killing hundreds of whales.

Joji Morishita, Japan's representative on the committee, said in a statement that Japan has made very possible efforts to meet the objectives set both by the panel and the court. And its 2015-2016 whaling plan has a cut in number of minke whales by a two-third.

Japan calls it scientific whaling, but Patrick Ramage, the whale program director at International Fund for Animal Welfare in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, said that whatever Japan does in not science.