Open the Window – Close the Door: Live in Japan It Is Now"). The tracks on "Open the Window – Close the Door: Live in Japan" were edited together from recordings taken across the four shows in Kawasaki and the album was released as a Japan exclusive on 5 September 2000. It was produced by guitarists Luke Morley and Ben Matthews, the latter of whom also mixed the record. Open the Window – Close the Door: Live in Japan Open the Window – Close the Door: Live in Japan is the fourth live album by English hard rock band Thunder. Recorded over four shows at Club Citta in Kawasaki, Japan
Whaling in Japan there was halted in March 1945 when the islands were taken by US forces. By November 1945 the whaling stations received permission to reopen; however, most whaling ships had been commandeered by the Imperial Japanese Navy, and by the end of the war the factory ships and most of the whale catchers had been sunk. General Douglas MacArthur encouraged the surrendered Japan to continue whaling in order to provide a cheap source of meat to starving people (and millions of dollars in oil for the US and Europe). The Japanese whaling industry quickly recovered as MacArthur authorized two tankers to