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...eek of intervening personally in a dispute that threatens to affect diplomatic relations. He wrote to his Japanese counterpart, Junichiro Koizumi, urging him to abandon plans to double the nation's ...
... been supporting whale slaughter since 2001. Gorton's of Gloucester is now a wholly owned subsidiary of a Japanese whaling company. Each year, Gorton's parent company kills hundreds of whales in the...
There was an interesting story in the Asashi Shinbun today. A survey showed that 60% of Japanese oppose the resumption of commercial whaling.
...levels of up to 40 times the amounts deemed acceptable by Japan have been detected in Norwegian whale meat, Japanese environmental conservation groups said Tuesday, citing a report by Greenpeace in Ge...
...the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, gathered in Chile voted against Japanese proposals to allow a limited trade in meat and blubber from the minke and Bryde's w...
... of Makah 'education'. The visit has been organized by the World Council of Whalers with funding from the Japanese and Norwegian whaling industries. This is further evidence for the long held posi...
TOKYO, April 3 (AFP) - Five Japanese whaling ships will return to Japan later this week after killing 440 minke whales in the Antarctic Ocean under the country's 'research' whaling programme, the Japa
SHIMONOSEKI — A five-ship Japanese mission for 'research whaling' in the Antarctic Ocean sailed from Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Friday. The vessels in the Institute of Cetacean Re
...orway and hopes to reach a conclusion soon, said Masayuki Komatsu, a counsellor for the Fisheries Agency. Japanese media said on Wednesday the resumption could come as early as in May, around the sa...
...gin campaign to resume whaling Wednesday, February 06, 2002 By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press TOKYO - Japanese officials launched a campaign Tuesday to resume commercial whaling, vowing to end a...
...r cameras...not harpoons,' he added. The organization said there is no scientific evidence to support the Japanese government's claim that increasing numbers of whales threaten global fish stocks. ...
...ng. The Government, including the Prime Minister, has taken Australia's concerns to the highest levels with Japanese officials in Australia, Japan and at a recent meeting at the UN in New York. While ...
...sphere is the focus of the International Whaling Commission's scientific committee meeting in this southern Japanese fishing town, where about 170 scientists from the commission's 25 member countries ...
...ion Minister Chris Carter said today he was infuriated by comments from Iceland that it wants to follow the Japanese and resume 'research whaling'. 'Generally, New Zealand and Iceland see eye to eye...
...e expert Marine mammals poorly protected, mismanaged under outdated system By MICK CORLISS Staff writer Japanese laws are ill-equipped to protect marine mammals and need an overhaul if these anima...
...ple in Japan, doesn't mean that the rest of them renounce the right to catch whales too Why shouldn't the Japanese be allowed to catch whales? What does the author think the ICRW is? Bullshit agai...
...houldn't pass comment on agricultural practices as well. How stupid. They think they are addressing the Japanese argument that an animal is an animal by going all vegan on their little tour. The r...
...Friday, June 7, 2002 at 09:30 JST TOKYO ? A senior U.S. Embassy official in Japan on Thursday called on the Japanese government not to repeat its opposition to the International Whaling Commission (IW...
...al whaling, but face a difficult task in winning the three-quarters majority vote needed to achieve that. Japanese officials also hope to win more support for sustainable use of whale species such a...
...spite the real threat, no systematic research has taken place since the mid-1990s. Between 1970 and 1989, Japanese researchers discovered most of the glaciers in the Khumbu region had retreated 30-6...
...at cetacean flesh, whales and dolphins. I really would like to see a breakdown of interested parties in the Japanese Whaling Industrial Complex, companies and individuals involved, whether private or ...
...e winners - challenged the scientific credibility of Japan's 'scientific' whaling program and called on the Japanese government to halt it. A letter from the scientists was delivered today to top offi...
...o continue their whale hunting, a tradition that can be traced back 5,000 years to the Jamon period. Four Japanese communities, with similar social, cultural, dietary and spiritual characteristics a...
... No. 3 View from an NGO Following press reports indicating that Norwegian whalers had signed contracts with Japanese buyers to export between 500 and 600 tons of minke whale blubber to Japan, the Norw...
From Geoff Carlin: It's Snow joke! I wonder what the Japanese public will do when they are told how contaminated their sea food is, particularly whales? japantoday > national 42% of elementary sch
Japan catches 440 minke whales in Antarctic Sea If the Japanese figures are accurate they have just about decimated the Antartic Minke race. Thursday, April 4, 2002 at 09:30 JST TOKYO - Japan has
...ple, despite the various notable inventions and the game of golf. In the mystical sense Norwegians (and the Japanese) murder the dream 'self' of the human spirit as they murder whales. There is no jus...
Agreed, they seem to be getting better at killing the whales. That does not in any way negate the point that it takes (according to source) an average of somewhere in the 2 1/2 to 3 minute range for
From Geoff Carlin: I would suggest that any rigorous investigation into Japanese fisheries policies (Ceteceans or fish stocks) would be like sifting through a whitewash covered manure heap; more and m
...l (you may need to register as a user with The Times to get access, no charge) Perhaps we could get the Japanese Authorities to grow whale tissue ad nauseum in vats to satisfy their hunger for wha...
...ww.mofa.go.jp/policy/economy/fishery/whales/position.html Recently, we received some strong objections to Japanese research activities on whales. We appreciate your interest in whales and we are ope...
...arlin: Greenpeace does seem a bit slow on the draw these days. Their reaction time in responding to obvious Japanese propaganda seems to have increased, or are they maturer and more deliberate as an o...
...carcity of food, if a life can be saved, then that goes ahead of any Treaty. Speaking of food scarcity, the Japanese only began seriously hunting whales after the Hiroshima bomb drop. they were starvi...
Having got rid of its Japanese President, Peru has now ended trade in cetacean flesh. Japan to extend whale hunts again. But Peru is no longer a market From WDCS Thursday, February 28, 2002 On t
Japanese see no reason to give up whale meat Natsumi Mizumoto At a corner of a Tokyo wholesale market jam-packed with huge tuna fish and other marine products are some distinctive displays where c
It could have been a joke..... Just my first thought. -Håvid A Falch
...mend you take a taxi to our office. The taxi ride will be less than 10 min. You can show a taxi driver this Japanese map. (link to web page) (subway) Take 'Marunouchi-Line' from Shinjuku station to ...
I saw an interesting annecdote on a Japanese BBS that goes a little something like this: 'Today, when I rang Greenpeace to ask if they wouldn't help rescue the beached whales at Kagoshima, the respo
...ap of Japan, which is interesting. The page has a header listing the scientific names, English names, and Japanese names....
...he North Pacific Ocean by adding the sei whale, an endangered species, to its catch targets, according to a Japanese government report obtained Wednesday by Kyodo News. Starting this year, Japan's r...
Hi again. The makah hunt, believe it or not western mindset people, is in a different paradym than the japanese/norwegian commercial whaleslaughter. The US gov attempted to destroy and subjugate all t
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 14 (AFP) - Greenpeace activists aboard inflatable launches turned back a Japanese whaler on the Scotia Sea off the coast of Antarctica, a Greenpeace spokesman said Friday. The two ru
IWC coming soon... Please sign the petition to the Japanese government asking them to stop the slaughter of dolphins, as in Taiji, Iki or Futo. This petition will be brought to the IWC. All people
... still in wood. Until 1986, Norway used to export large quantities of whale products to Japan. According to Japanese Customs Statistics, a total of 3970 tonnes of whale products (both meat and blubber...
Japanese whalers killed 194 whales - 100 minke, 50 Bryde's, 39 sei and five sperm - during a recently completed three-month expedition. http://www.anc.org/wildlife/wildlife_article.cfm?identifier=20
...le sad 'We NEED you to join our commitment to peace for whales. I still have nightmares seeing footage of Japanese fishermen killing dophins with knives and the bloody water because, God forbid, the...
This poll does not seem to square with the figure I have seen quoted before that only 10% of Japanese had ever eaten whale meat. They must have left the forms in the whale meat gourmet butchers, sorry
... 'Japan has to be stopped from hunting and killing these creatures to extintion.I'd rather be with out the Japanese than the whales.' Hey, what about Norway, the Alaskans, the Makah, and various ot...
...ckland) and Dr. Palumbi (University of Hawaii) claimed that the authors found seven cetacean species in the Japanese retail market using DNA analysis. Experimental Contamination Samples were purchas...
...n As if Japan didn't have enough problems with its whaling image, a recent book by a whaling insider says Japanese caught far more whales than official statistics show and routinely landed undersize...
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