Tokyo Outpost is JAPAN Forward's new interview series, delivering sharp conversations with global thinkers, strategists, and experts. Recorded on location in Tokyo, each episode offers a front-row seat to the key debates and decisions shaping our world today.

What’s really behind Japan’s whaling debate? Journalist and researcher Jay Alabaster joins Tokyo Outpost to discuss life inside Taiji, clashes with Sea Shepherd, Paul Watson’s arrest, media bias in Japan and the West, and whether common ground can ever be found between tradition and activism.