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Japanese gravesite visited by dolphin activists
Birmingham Star
Thursday 27th August, 2009
Anger has erupted in an Australian coastal town which has a sister-city relationship with the town of Taiji in Japan.
Councillors of Japanese heritage and others have been verbally attacked in the Western Australian town of Broome, over a dolphin cull which occurs each year in Taiji.
The dolphin slaughter, which is documented in a new movie, “The Cove,” has also led to an attack on an historic Japanese cemetery.
ABC News Australia reported that opponents of the cull hung pictures of dolphins in the cemetery.
Japanese people have been well established in Broome since they arrived in the early part of the 20th century as pearl fishers.
The Broome council last week voted to suspend its sister-city relationship with Taiji, where environmentalists say more than 20,000 dolphins are killed each year.
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| By Anonymous, 08-27-09, 10:13 AM |
Australian dolphin activists damage Japanese gravesPlease check whether those so call japanese are actually Ryuku people. Many immigrants at that time were Ryuku people escaping japanese occupation of their independent island nation now re-named as Okinawa. |
| By Rob R, 08-27-09, 10:26 AM |
Australian dolphin activists damage Japanese gravesThat kind of action is totally counterproductive. Those so-called activists should be promoting the movie 'THE COVE' and trying to raise awareness. The Japanese population of Broome have little or nothing to do with the 30 or so people in Taiji who are the cause of the dolphin slaughter and their senseless 'action' against the cemetery shows these individuals to have racist attitudes - They are no Animal Activists or Eco-Warriors, just mindless thugs. |
| By Broome cit, 08-27-09, 10:48 AM |
This is a lie.Welcome to the world of propaganda.
No such thing has occured.
Yes a picture of a dolphin was hung on the fence of a cemetary.
Thats it.
Dont the tens of thousands of dolphins slaughtered each year in Japan deserve some compassion as well?
If we have a chance to help end this horror, then why should we not do what we can to do so?
Come to Broome and meet our dolphins.
They are friendly and awesome.
That the Japanese need to twist every attempt to protect the worlds dolphins into some conspiracy involving racists is a disgrace.
Nice try changing the subject.
Now how about instead changing your approach to the ocean?
The whales and dolphins deserve better.
Come to Broome.
Have a beer with us.
We are not racist.
But we also dont want to be ascosciated with the barbaric goings on in Taiji.
No one does.
Wake up Japan. |
| By Anonymous, 08-27-09, 01:13 PM |
| This is a story from the Japan Herald, but they source ABC News Australia for their information. Here’s a link:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/27/2668821.htm
I’d say the Australian article is even more damning than what the Japanese chose to reprint.
Are you suggesting that a major Australian media outlet is publishing propaganda in support of the Taiji dolphin hunt? Sorry, I just don’t see that happening.
Opposing the dolphin kill in Taiji does not justify actions like these. Nor does it justify liars like you trying to downplay what really happened. |
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