It lived in an imaginary land where the ICRW allowed Japan to take what it wanted, Professor Boisson de Chazournes said.
''Do we have to wait for some comely white whale to come along and wake up Japan?'' she said. ''I don't think so ... What Japan needs is to come back to international legality.''
In the detailed written case, or Memorial, Australia summed up its arguments by saying that Japan had undermined normal science.
''Japan has subverted normal scientific process by commencing with a pre-determined method – whaling – and attempting to 'retro-fit' a program to match,'' the Memorial said.
''The reason that Japan persists with [the program], JARPA II, is that its actual purpose is to continue whaling; in so doing, Japan is driven by its business model and the economic and other benefits generated for stakeholders.''