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With the historic change of government in Japan, Greenpeace is intensifying its efforts to bring whaling to an end. The new Japanese Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, has already shown he is more concerned about Japan's international reputation than his predecessors. Join over 140,000 people and send the new Prime Minister your Origami Whale, asking him to end the corrupt whaling industry once and for all.

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Tokyo Two trial

Toru Suzuki is a Greenpeace anti-whaling activist from Japan. One of the "Tokyo Two", he was arrested in 2008 after expsoing a whale meat embezzlement scandal that rocked the Japanese government-funded whaling industry and made front-page news.

In 2009, Toru visited Australia, meeting with politicians, government officials and the public to provide an insight into the Greenpeace anti-whaling campaign inside Japan.

Listen to Toru in the video below.

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Humpback whale swim underwater, just off the coast of Tonga. Enlarge image

Time to bury the International Whaling Commission?

The International Whaling Commission, the peak international body for dealing with whaling and whale conservation, has failed to save any whales this year.

Humpback whale swim underwater, just off the coast of Tonga. Enlarge image

Whales needs more action and less conversation

The annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting starts on Monday in the scenic Portuguese island of Madeira. It looks like the greatest threat to the whales there will be hot air.

The IWC is threatening to become a talkfest where no clear action is taken to stop the Japanese government from any more lethal whaling in the Southern Ocean.

At our vigil for whales on 19 March 2009. Enlarge image

Shedding light on Japan's whaling scandal

On 19 March 2009, whales supporters joined Greenpeace at a peaceful vigil outside the Japanese embassy in Canberra, Australia.

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February 22, 2007: Ross Sea. Southern Ocean. Greenpeace activists onboard the MY Esperanza hold a banner calling for the end of whaling in Antarctica because of the unacceptable threat to whales and the pristine environment posed by the Japanese whaling fleet. Enlarge image

Bargaining with the lives of whales

The fate of thousands of whales in Antarctic and Pacific waters could be decided by current negotiations involving Australia and Japan.

A celebratory sake barrel-cracking ceremony kicks off the opening of the Aomori Communications Centre. From left: Hirosumi Hamabata (head of the Ohma Fishing Cooperative), Takumi Kobayashi (Fundraising Director, Greenpeace Japan), Jun Hoshikawa (Executive Director, Greenpeace Japan), Malcolm Wren (Communications Centre Project Coordinator) and Shigenobu Araki (local Aomori farmer). Enlarge image

Taking the whaling debate to the Japanese people

Greenpeace opened a new communications centre in Aomori, Japan’s northern fishing district. The centre will be a hub of information and discussion on the country’s whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

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