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Global protest over arrest of Japanese whale activists

Feature story | June 30, 2008 at 0:00

Global protest continues to mount with protests and vigils in front of Japanese embassies around the world and more than 180,000  190,000 200,000 letters being sent to the Japanese government demanding the release of Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki...

Whale meat scandal: Many questions

Feature story | July 18, 2008 at 0:00

Why would we believe the whaling industry when it says it is innocent? The institutions behind the Japanese whaling operation have apparently now investigated themselves and cleared themselves of any wrongdoing over the whale meat embezzlement...

Activists charged for exposing whale meat scandal

Feature story | July 11, 2008 at 0:00

Our Japanese activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki were charged with theft and trespass today by the prosecutor in Aomori after they exposed a major scandal around the embezzlement of whale meat from the Japanese government-sponsored Southern...

Japan holds whale activists without charge (Updated)

Feature story | June 20, 2008 at 0:00

Japanese police have arrested two Greenpeace activists 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...

Japanese government to investigate whale meat scandal (UPDATED)

Feature story | May 15, 2008 at 0:00

Stake outs, testimony from informers, hidden cameras and tailing trucks full of stolen goods - it reads like a Hollywood movie, but it was an every day experience for Greenpeace activists in Japan, who have spent four months cracking open a major...

Meet the Tokyo Two

Background | February 22, 2010 at 14:18

While hundreds of millions around the world have spoken out against whaling, Junichi and Toru are the only two currently facing prison time for working to expose the industry's corruption. Here's a little more about them...

Whaling on trial

Background | March 10, 2010 at 17:55

Greenpeace activists Toru Suzuki (below, right) and Junichi Sato (below, left) have been facing trial for nearly two years in Japan and are now awaiting a final verdict. They are charged only for theft and trespass -- yet it has always been...

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Putting whaling on trial: co-defendants worldwide admit to crime of opposing whaling

Background | July 3, 2009 at 12:51

Thousands of ordinary people would stand as co-defendants with two activists who exposed a whale-meat scandal rather than see Japan's whaling programme continue in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Help us show the government of Japan just how...

Can we trust the whalers when they say they're

Image | July 18, 2008 at 1:00

Can we trust the whalers when they say they're innocent?

Greenpeace Japan whale campaign coordinator

Image | May 15, 2008 at 1:00

Greenpeace Japan whale campaign coordinator Junichi Sato, with whale meat that was stolen from Japanese taxpayers, and which he provided as evidence to the government -- only to be arrested and charged for doing so.

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