Photo: Whales Beauty
→ Japan Opens Whaling Conference (2007-2-13)
Why don't the Japanese government quit hunting, let alone selling those whale meat?
The rumor says that gangs are involved and it certainly is the reason why the media is broadcasting the traditional aspects of whaling. Those gangs -- right wing extremists -- gether up in those demos held by the anti-whaling groups. The fact is, major commercial whaling started only after the WWII, under the command of GHQ after it stopped hunting in 1940 in the States. GHQ decided to use whale meat for an important source of protein for hungry Japanese and it indeed has been so during 60's and 70's.
And I say, whenever politicians says the timing was wrong, you've got to be very careful. And that anti-whaling supporters do not seem like understand what is going on in East Asia and behaving exactly like they did in 1994 deal, should not be the reason why a Japanese citizen should be threatened not to say to stop whaling. North Korea was developing making atomic weapons during the transactions was on and they already had it when the deal was made.
Maybe I should add that Iceland and Norway is selling whale meat to Japanese along with the right wing protest over the way those anti-whaling groups stopped short of accusing Iceland and Norway. Iceland whalers threatened the Japanese to buy up their whales -- eight of them -- or they stop hunting and that pro-whaling would lose one precious vote from Europe.
The gangs "bou-ryoku-dan" cast dark shadow over every aspects of Japanese political life. The member of those gangs like "yamaguchi-gumi" are indeed already registered and listed in the police's black list. They are formal existence and the members have name cards with their address and phone numbers on. The police has 84700 people listed last year, and half of violent crimes in Japan is related to those members of the gangs. Around 40% of cases of money laundering is gang related.
→ 資金洗浄の検挙、最多の127件に (2007-2-14)
捕鯨反対の集会には、右翼の宣伝カーがやってくるんですね。
→ 環境保護団体も会場周辺で活動 高まる緊張
捕鯨船に体当たりをいとわないというワトソン船長。やくざは怖くないそうです。日本にいないせいじゃないでしょうか。
→ 日本の捕鯨は「恥知らずの茶番」
→ 山口組国粋会会長、拳銃自殺か (2007-2-15)
→ 山口組国粋会会長が拳銃自殺 都内連続発砲との関連捜査 (2007-2-15)
こちらは外務省さんの見解です。
→ 捕鯨に対する外務省の立場
鯨肉はもはや決して日本人の主要なたんぱく供給源ではなく、在庫はだぶついているそうです。
→ 肉類の１人１日あたりの供給量（グラフ）
鯨肉の不買運動があって、ニッスイは鯨肉の取引中止。世界から１０万通を超える抗議がきているそうです。
→ 鯨肉取引でニッスイに抗議殺到 グリーンピースが不買運動 (2006-4-8)
