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20 March 2009: Whale supporters joined Greenpeace activists in a vigil outside the Japanese Embassy in Canberra. We called for an end to whaling, as well as justice for Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki. These two Japanese Greenpeace activists, also known as the Tokyo Two, were arrested after exposing a scandal within Japan’s whaling industry last year.

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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.

9 December 2008, Bondi Beach, Australia: Greenpeace commissioned a life-size sculpture of a juvenile Fin Whale made out of sand. The sculpture co-incides with events in 16 other countries highlighting the plight of two Greenpeace activists under house arrest in Japan for exposing illegal whale meat trade. Enlarge image

Japan urged to put whaling on trial

Greenpeace activists and sand sculptors put “whaling on trial” with a giant 17m sand sculpture of a fin whale on Bondi Beach in Sydney.

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