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Japanese Whaling

Topic | October 29, 2009 at 18:29

No Market for Icelandic Whale Meat in Japan

Press release | June 8, 2009 at 0:00

The Japanese trader who accepted an import of fin and minke whale meat from Iceland and Norway last year has told Greenpeace that he will not take any more in the future, because there is no market for the whale meat in Japan.

Whaling On Trial

Whaling On Trial

Publication | April 28, 2011 at 3:30

In early 2010, two Greenpeace activists went on trial in Japan in an unprecedented court case - one that court papers will register simply as a case of theft and trespass but which, over the course of the past two years, has become so much more.

Whaling on trial: Vindication!

Whaling on trial: Vindication!

Feature story | December 23, 2010 at 12:32

TOYKO: After two and a half years of hard work in Japan to expose corruption at the heart of the whaling industry - we have a significant victory!

Key Tokyo Two defence witnesses to put whaling on trial

Press release | January 15, 2010 at 0:00

The prospect of putting the Japanese whaling programme on trial and defending the principle of peaceful civil disobedience moved a step closer today. Following repeated denials of key defence evidence, the legal team for the Tokyo Two were today...

An open letter to Yukio Hatoyama

An open letter to Yukio Hatoyama

Feature story | February 12, 2010 at 0:00

Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, writes to Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, urging his Government to live up to its commitment to human rights and ensure a fair trial for anti-whaling activists Junichi Sato and...

Whale meat in Japan

Whale meat in Japan

Background | January 8, 2009 at 16:53

Whale meat is a luxury food in Japan - and has been for several decades. An opinion poll conducted in 1999 showed that only 11 percent of Japanese adults support whaling, with a similar number of 14 percent of Japanese adults opposing it.

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85 tonnes of whale meat may soon be abandoned after unsuccessful import

Press release | August 26, 2008 at 17:28

A Greenpeace investigation has revealed that around 85 tonnes of whale meat, sent to Japan in late May 2008 from Northern Europe, and for which the Japanese government has not yet received an application for import procedures, may have to be...

Bad cafeteria food takes on new meaning in Japan

Bad cafeteria food takes on new meaning in Japan

Feature story | August 2, 2002 at 0:00

The results of Japan’s latest whaling “research” expedition go on sale this week. To combat the dwindling appetite for whale meat among Japanese people, the government is cutting prices and giving a few hundred tonnes of whale meat for school...

Norway exports toxic whale blubber to Iceland

Norway exports toxic whale blubber to Iceland

Feature story | July 16, 2002 at 0:00

This deadly delicacy is not only being exported in spite of an international ban on the trade of whale products, the contaminated blubber poses a serious health risk to the Icelandic people. But international and neighbourly responsibility are...

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