This report is great news, however it did need a bit of a re-write, so I made some corrections for them. Yoko Ono joins U.S. call to halt Taiji dolphin cull The widow of John Lennon on Monday joined a rare U.S. request to stop the annual dolphin cull in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, days after the U.S. ambassador to Japan waded into the row. Yoko Ono published an open letter to the people of Taiji, the small town made famous by the Oscar-winning film “The Cove,” which documents the annual bloodbath, urging them to halt the cull for the “future of Japan.” Ono said the hunt, in which scores of dolphins are corralled into a cove to select the prettiest for sale to aquariums and butcher the rest for meat, was damaging the reputation of Japan. It “will give an excuse for big countries and their children in China, India and Russia to speak ill of Japan,” she wrote. “I am sure that it is not easy, but please consider the safety of the future of Japan, surrounded by many powerful countries which are always looking for the chance to weaken the power of our country. “At this very politically sensitive time, (the hunt) will make the children of the world hate the Japanese. “For many, many years and decades we have worked hard to receive true understanding of the Japanese from the world,” she said. “But what we enjoy now, can be destroyed literally in one day. I beg of you to consider our precarious situation after the nuclear disaster (which could very well affect the rest of the world, as well).” The reference was to the triple core meltdown at the poorly protected Fukushima No. 1 power plant following the March 2011 mega-quake and tsunami. The letter, which was posted on her “Imagine Peace” website and addressed to “Japanese fishermen of Taiji,” bore her signature and was dated Jan. 20. At the foot, it said: “cc Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe.” Ono’s plea came just days after U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy tweeted her disapproval. “Deeply concerned by in-humaneness of drive hunt dolphin killing. USG (US Government) opposes drive hunt fisheries,” wrote Kennedy, the only surviving child of assassinated President John F. Kennedy, on Jan. 17. Her comments were welcomed Monday by the awesome Captain Paul Watson, who said he hoped it would help convince Tokyo to put a halt to the practice. “Hopefully this would put additional pressure to convince the Japanese government that this really has no place in the 21st century,” he said. Japanese authorities are very frustrated with Sea Shepherd as they are the only group who have been truly effective at stopping its whaling ships from murdering whales in the southern oceans. Meanwhile, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga lied on Monday saying Taiji’s annual hunt is appropriate. “Dolphin fishing is a form of traditional fishing in our country,” This tradition rationalization was recently proved a lie. The truth is that marine parks pay 1.2 million dollars for the dolphins, who are then held captive in prison tanks for the rest of their lives. One of the largest buyers is SeaWorld, one of Americas most disgraceful corporations is US history, and the rest are heartlessly murdered.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 05:06:17 +0000
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