Common minke whale a coastal component using three to four small-type sampling vessels – mainly "Taisho Maru No. 28" (47.31 gross tons, 2002–2012), "Sumitomo Maru No. 31" (32 gross tons, 2002–2010), "Katsu Maru No. 7" (32 gross tons, 2002–2012), and "Koei Maru No. 75" (46 gross tons, 2003–2010) – with a total of up to 120 individuals being caught off Sanriku in the spring and off Kushiro, on the Pacific side of Hokkaido, in the fall. This research program continues to the present. Whaling for minke whales off Korea began in the early 1930s, when they were opportunistically caught by vessels targeting larger
A Gentle Creature film: "Dịu Dàng - Gentle". Another 2015 adaption was the Russian film "Клетка" ("The Cage"). A Gentle Creature "A Gentle Creature" (), sometimes also translated as "The Meek One", is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1876. The piece comes with the subtitle of "A Fantastic Story", and it chronicles the relationship between a pawnbroker and a girl that frequents his shop. The story was inspired by a news report that Dostoyevsky read in April 1876 about the suicide of a seamstress. Dostoyevsky referred to it as a "meek suicide" that "keeps haunting you for a long time." The