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Posted by jossc — 30 June 2008 at 2:18pm
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Update July 1 2008: 23 days in custody without charge
for Greenpeace Japan activists
Greenpeace
supporters gathered outside the Japanese Embassy in London
this lunchtime. They held a peaceful protest to express solidarity with the two anti-whaling
campaigners currently being held without trial in Japan for their role in exposing a large
scale embezzlement scandal within the Japanese government-sponsored Southern
Ocean whaling program.
Among the ranks was Greenpeace UK
Director John Sauven, who handed in
a letter to Ambassador Shin Ebihara asking him to make urgent representation to
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda for their immediate release, and to order a further
investigation into the scandal exposed by Greenpeace.
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Posted by jossc — 20 June 2008 at 12:27pm
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Japanese police have arrested the two Greenpeace activists responsible for exposing a whale meat scandal involving the government-sponsored whaling
programme. The two activists, Junichi Sato, 31, and Toru Suzuki, 41,
are being investigated for allegedly stealing a box of whale meat which
they presented as evidence.
Read more on our international site
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Posted by jossc — 20 May 2008 at 10:53am
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Greenpeace Japan delivering stolen whale meat to the Tokyo Public Prosecutor's Office
You did it! Following last week's revelation that crew members from the fleet responsible for Japan's so-called 'scientific' whaling programme had for many years been stealing and illegally selling off prime whale bacon at the end of each annual hunt, more than 40,000 of you wrote to the Japanese government to demand an investigation. Today the Tokyo district Public Prosecutor has confirmed that there will be one.
Posted by jossc — 15 May 2008 at 10:43am
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Update 20th May: Tokyo Public Prosecutor agrees to launch an investigation
Crew members from the factory ship at the heart of Japan's so-called 'scientific' whaling programme have been stealing and illegally selling off the best cuts of whale meat. Our four-month investigation uncovered disturbing evidence of an embezzlement ring operating on board the Nisshin Maru, the floating factory ship which processes the whales caught by the whaling fleet's hunting vessels in the Southern Ocean.
Posted by jossc — 4 March 2008 at 2:54pm
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Greenpeace activists were demonstrating ouside The Japenese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo yesterday, where members of a dozen African and Pacific
nations met to discuss whaling with Japanese bureaucrats. Representatives from Tanzania, Palau, Micronesia and Eritrea,
all of which have received substantial 'fisheries aid' in recent years, were among
Whaling Commission (IWC) and support Japan's latest bid to overturn the moritorium which currently bans commercial whaling.
Posted by jossc — 18 February 2008 at 6:59pm
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A new poll released today shows that the number of Japanese who don't support whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is growing - the 69 per cent figure is a slight increase on the number found by a similar poll last year. Perhaps surprisingly, the Greenpeace commissioned poll showed that 87 per cent were unaware that their tax money was being used to subsidise the whaling operation - to the tune of 500 million yen (about £2.4 million) each year.
Posted by jossc — 6 February 2008 at 5:26pm
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Yesterday at 3pm local time the Esperanza departed from Hobart in Tasmania,
Australia bringing to a close the 2007/2008 Southern Ocean Expedition. The ship had arrived on Sunday evening to a great welcome from the people of Hobart, including the mayor and a number of councillors.
After spending close to two months tracking the Japanese whaling fleet, Esperanza was forced to leave the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary last week when her fuel supply started to run out. The sanctuary had remained fatality free for the whales during the previous fortnight while the Espy chased the factory whaling ship, the Nisshin Maru, across 5,000 miles of the Southern Ocean.
Posted by jamie — 29 January 2008 at 2:41pm
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A Greenpeace inflatable prevents the Nisshin Maru from being refuelled by the Oriental Bluebird © Greenpeace/Jiri Rezac
A few days
ago, the Esperanza - which had been pursuing the Japanese whaling fleet for two
weeks - was forced to quit the chase and head back to port as the ship is
running low on fuel. But this year's Southern Ocean expedition has been a
resounding success.