Sea Mammals PM Shinzo Abe; What Dolphins Can Teach You About Parenting! Learn from dolphins. Stop the killing of dolphins in taiji!! http://www.onegreenplanet.org/.../what-dolphins-can.../ 7 · December 26 at 1:29am · Edited Hide 21 Replies Bruno Jin stop the harrassing of Taiji hunters! 4 · December 26 at 1:40am Bruno Jin yes to dolphin meat, delicious! 5 · December 26 at 1:40am Sea Mammals @Bruno Jin ; Good Man or Devil? You have chosen the latter! Hitler had the Devil chosen as he ordered genocides... You are an incredibly bad person! Every evil man gets at some time in his life just punishment to be felt.... 2 · December 26 at 1:52am · Edited Bruno Jin indeed, lets all eat dolphin and whale! 5 · December 26 at 2:04am Sea Mammals @Bruno Jin : http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-nanjing-genocide.../5421211 The Nanjing Genocide. China and the War Crimes of Imperial Japan For the first time in its history, China... globalresearch.ca 1 · December 26 at 2:22am · Edited Bruno Jin hahaha the nanking massacre, http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/26_S4.pdf 2 · December 26 at 2:39am Bruno Jin the biggest nonsense ever written 3 · December 26 at 2:39am Sea Mammals http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/war-crimes-wwii-japanese... War Crimes in WWII: Japanese Practised Cannibalism on Indian... ibtimes.co.uk|By Jayalakshmi K 1 · December 26 at 2:55am Sea Mammals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes Japanese war crimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Japanese war crimes occurred in many Asian... en.wikipedia.org 2 · December 26 at 2:55am Sea Mammals @Bruno Jin ; now you can be proud ? 1 · December 26 at 2:57am Bruno Jin http://www.ne.jp/asahi/unko/tamezou/nankin/fiction/ 1 · December 26 at 3:06am Bruno Jin you showing me wikipedia and more propaganda nonsense to try to win an argument that started about saving dolphins, what are you trying to prove here? that japanese have the mind of murder? when all of those warcrimes make no sense for a person with a right mind 1 · December 26 at 3:08am Emmanuel Chanel Looks Sea Mammals doesn't know that Hitler was a vegetarian loving animals, too. 4 · December 26 at 3:27am Phil Vokey You've already lost, SM, when you have to go back 70 years into history to get something to back up your argument. (lol) 6 · December 26 at 4:17am I'll Be Back http://www.npr.org/.../dolphins-adorable-playful-not-as... Dolphins: Adorable, Playful, Not As Smart As You Might Think Dolphins are often considered the geniuses of... npr.org|By All Things Considered 4 · December 26 at 4:35am I'll Be Back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_crimes List of war crimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article lists and summarizes the war... en.wikipedia.org 1 · December 26 at 4:36am Cristian Rival You ll be back to the cock you suck bloody idiot!!! 1 · December 26 at 8:30am Sea Mammals Possessing large brains and complex behavioral patterns, cetaceans are believed to be highly intelligent. Their brains, which are the largest in the Animal Kingdom and have enormous gyrification compared with terrestrial mammals, have long been of scientific interest. Few studies, however, report total number of brain cells in cetaceans, and even fewer have used unbiased counting methods. In this study, using stereological methods, we estimated the total number of cells in the neocortex of the long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas) brain. For the first time, we show that a species of dolphin has more neocortical neurons than any mammal studied to date including humans. These cell numbers are compared across various mammals with different brain sizes, and the function of possessing many neurons is discussed. We found that the long-finned pilot whale neocortex has approximately 37.2 × 109 neurons, which is almost twice as many as humans, and 127 × 109 glial cells. Thus, the absolute number of neurons in the human neocortex is not correlated with the superior cognitive abilities of humans (at least compared to cetaceans) as has previously been hypothesized. However, as neuron density in long-finned pilot whales is lower than that in humans, their higher cell number appears to be due to their larger brain. Accordingly, our findings make an important contribution to the ongoing debate over quantitative relationships in the mammalian brain. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4244864/ Quantitative relationships in delphinid neocortex Possessing large brains and complex... ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 2 · December 26 at 8:48am Yamamoto San Wow so much complexity and fancy features of their brain, pity such a waste since they are still as smart and behave much like all other animals 2 · December 26 at 7:21pm Sea Mammals jealous of whales? Yesterday at 2:31am Emmanuel Chanel You ignore this. LoL! >Our results underscore that correlations between cognitive performance and absolute neocortical neuron numbers across animal orders or classes are of limited value, and attempts to quantify the mental capacity of a dolphin for cross-species comparisons are bound to be controversial. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4244864/ Quantitative relationships in delphinid neocortex Possessing large brains and complex... ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 1 · Yesterday at 8:01am Sh Karg PM Shinzo Abe is not from this world 2 · December 26 at 1:41am Bruno Jin he is indeed, from planet earth, the country of Japan 5 · December 26 at 2:04am Bruno Jin https://twitter.com/pSa.../status/535412211045244929/photo/1 this is good! 3 · December 26 at 1:41am Dan Drexler So IF IF IF Taiji closed the hunts tomorrow can anyone tell me what would happento a group of Dolphins that swim by Japan? 1 · December 26 at 2:05am Jo Stoyel They would live 2 · December 26 at 2:12pm Dan Drexler How do you figure that? December 26 at 2:43pm Phil Vokey They're only aware of what the Cove Gawkers show, DD. They don't want to accept the FACT that dolphins are killed for food elsewhere in Japan and other countries of the world. 4 · December 26 at 4:53pm Yamamoto San @Jo Stoyel - they would still be hunted and eaten by orcas. Orcas probably kill more dolphins than human do 5 · December 26 at 7:23pm Yamada Gaku Lol so Orcas should arrest by some country's police officer, aren't they? 1 · 18 hrs Phil Vokey How about the dolphins and whales, PO, that are slaughtered in Alaska, USA ? Or the seals and walruses? Do they not bleed and feel pain, too? Or the whales that are slaughtered in 10 other countries of the world ? I guess you just want to talk about Taiji and other places in Japan, do you ? Doesn't that sound hypocritical to you ? 4 · December 26 at 4:25am Bert Stankowski Phil, the best example of brains sickness by whale- and dolphin meat is yourself. Your brain is mess and scum! Did you try to much dolphin meat? 10 hrs Phil Vokey LOL! I have never eaten dolphin meat and from the taste descriptions that I've heard, I have no desire to even try it. Whale meat, however, I have always enjoyed. Minke meat tastes a lot like elk meat. That was 40 years ago. Since then, the only whale that I've enjoyed was some Alaskan bowhead whale meat. 5 hrs Phil Vokey Btw, idiot, it's spelled 'too' if you mean an excessive amount. That's not a very big word. It's not TOO easy TO louse that one up, unless you have 'brains sickness', TOO! (lol) Is 'brains sickness' some illness than you just invented? 5 hrs · Edited Cristian Rival Quit whaling and killing dolphins!!! 3 · December 26 at 4:25am Hide 13 Replies Yamamoto San Quit begging and whinging!!! 3 · December 26 at 8:10am Cristian Rival I have quit buying japanese products. 3 · December 26 at 8:29am Emmanuel Chanel You say that you boycott Japan. ok. 先從隗始！ Quit using computers including your phone first! You cannot watch TV, too. They includes Japanese products. Especially, note that now it's soon after the blue LED technology won the Nobel Prize of Physics. The CPU is from Japanese technology, too. I feel it possible even that you need to live naked in the wild for your boycott. Try hard! 1 · December 26 at 9:14am Stephen Barnett https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dRlaslJLVI... Whaling in Barrow City, Alaska صيد الحيتان في مدينة بارو، بألاسكا Whaling in Barrow City, Alaska صيد الحيتان في مدينة... youtube.com|By ture Dead 3 · December 26 at 4:05pm Terry Boyle http://youtu.be/3RIpRVwEAR8 Red Waters: Faroe Islands Whale Slaughter (RT Documentary) The Faroe Islands, in the harsh north Atlantic,... youtube.com 4 · December 26 at 4:47pm Stephen Barnett Terry - I was looking for the RT documentary. Thanks for the link. 2 · Yesterday at 4:26am Cristian Rival Good luck in the olimpics, we will get the world's attention... 1 · Yesterday at 10:04am Stephen Barnett CR - All previous Olympics had anti-groups like you, but the countries and its people didn't care a bit. South Korea still butcher dogs. In either case, if Japan cared about the world reputation, she would have stopped the dolphin hunt long before. The only way for a positive change is to increase Japanese activists without such negative propaganda and ugly hatred. Simple-celled person like you will never understand. People will also notice Cove Guardians' horrible misleed in Taiji and their false reports based on misperceptions and biases. This site ''11 Facts about dolphin hunt'' is full of fabrications. As I thought, source come from Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians Hippies. They are literally amateur who can't report accurate information. https://www.dosomething.org/.../11-facts-about-dolphin-hunts 11 Facts about Dolphin Hunts | DoSomething.org | America's... dosomething.org 2 · Yesterday at 3:27pm Anthony Tony Marano Cristian: Happy to read you stop purchasing Japanese products. I am sure those products were too difficult for you to use. Besides, you do not deserve the quality they brings. Sorry about that. 5 · 14 hrs Cristian Rival Anthony, another troll defending crimes against OUR PLANET OCEAN!!! I'm sure you still buy thouse tecnological japanese dildos that you know how to use pretty well... 13 hrs · Edited Phil Vokey Way to go Cock Roach. ^ That's ^ about your level of intellect and decency. We await your next brilliant reply. 4 hrs Cristian Rival Good luck on chemo low life pig! 4 hrs Phil Vokey I've already explained to you, Cock Roach, on 2 other threads that chemo thing was a year ago. Thanks to the great medical people here in Canada, chemo is finished and I am healthy again. I'm sure it disappoints you but I am going to be around for a long time yet, so you may as well get used to being proven an idiot....over and over again. In the future when you hear crap like that from one of your freaky friends, you really should check it out instead of just repeating it and making yourself look dumber than them. 1 hr Cristian Rival Ohh!!! Phil and Dan together!!! The lowest life pigs in the PM's page!!! Yamamoto will be jelous... 4 · December 26 at 4:29am Anthony Tony Marano What is the problem with pigs? I thought your type liked all creatures excpet humans? 3 · 14 hrs Bert Stankowski https://twitter.com/pSa.../status/535412211045244929/photo/1 10 hrs Phil Vokey You must be lonely are you, Cock Roach? You can't even get a person as vile as you to support you here. 4 · December 26 at 7:41pm · Edited Cristian Rival How is your condition Phil?? You are decided to do as much harm as you can before die ,aren't you?? Hell is waiting for you... 1 · December 26 at 8:38am Phil Vokey I'm in great condition, Cock Roach. I 've been eating a bit too much during the holidays but that's not really harmful. It's just part of the celebrations. Hell is waiting for you, too. Your vile attitude will guarantee you a place there. 2 · December 26 at 7:42pm · Edited Phil Vokey If your question was about my health, Cock Roach, I have news that will, no doubt, disappoint you. I had a health problem about a year ago but here in Canada we have some of the finest medical facilities and best medical people in the world and they took care of that problem. I'm sure you'll also be disappointed to know that a lot of those great medical people were of Asian descent. Two of them were of Japanese descent. I'll be glad to share more details with you if your metal/emotional 'condition' can handle it. 3 · December 26 at 7:34pm · Edited Yamada Gaku Whale huggers brainwashed by propaganda. 4 · December 26 at 5:56am Alok Kumar PM SHINZO ABE good evening. His Highness Alok Kumar December 26 at 7:34am Sea Mammals Bad news for Trolls: Bruno Jin, Phil Vokey, Emmanuel Chanel, I'll Be Back, Dan Drexler I, Stephen Barnett , Yamamoto San; The Science has confirmed: ********* Your are stupider than pilot whale******** .."We found that the long-finned pilot whale has the highest number of neocortical cells estimated to date. In particular, the long-finned pilot whale has almost twice as many neocortical neurons as humans". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4244864/ 5 · December 26 at 9:07am · Edited Hide 15 Replies I'll Be Back Get back to me when you find a whale that can tell a dirty joke. 3 · December 26 at 9:39am Sea Mammals You know not what whales tell, you don't understand their language. 1 · December 26 at 9:52am Phil Vokey @...SM.. Nobody was saying that they 'know what whales tell' or that they understand their 'language'. It's only wishful thinking whale huggers who believe that crap. 3 · December 26 at 6:24pm · Edited Phil Vokey An idiot quoting science is funny, SM. Please continiue with your entertainment. Have you ever tried stand up comedy? 4 · December 26 at 4:24pm Cristian Rival Low life pigs December 26 at 4:38pm Dan Drexler How dare people eat different animals then we do ! 2 · December 26 at 5:26pm Phil Vokey We should start an e-petition! (lol) 3 · December 26 at 5:28pm Stephen Barnett https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=451743221643157&id=100004224488701&set=a.139118342905648.33066.100004224488701&source=48 Stephen Barnett's photo. 4 · December 26 at 9:19pm Yamada Gaku Sometime whale huggers gave some url of "science" esday but these have no data. Is this mean whale huggers can't understand or study "real" science? 2 · December 26 at 9:49pm I'll Be Back "you don't understand their language" If they are so intelligent they should be able to speak our language. 1 · Yesterday at 4:37pm Sea Mammals It doesn't matter what you write: they are nevertheless dumber than cetaceans. "Affected dogs are barking" 22 hrs Bruno Jin still i will eat dolphins no matter their intelligence. i dont judge what i eat based on intelligence. 1 · 15 hrs Bruno Jin they are animals i love them both as animals and as food 1 · 15 hrs Bruno Jin you are the troll here btw 2 · 15 hrs · Edited Sea Mammals Bruno Jin; it's no intelligent answer to expected from you.. 15 hrs José Eduardo tradition??? MONEY!!! https://scontent-b-mia.xx.fbcdn.net/.../10891946... 4 · December 26 at 3:46pm Hide 17 Replies Dan Drexler And food! 1 · December 26 at 6:16pm José Eduardo Do you really believe it's for food?? Please!!! Easy money is the real name of this "tradition" 2 · December 26 at 6:42pm · Edited Yamamoto San What dosent involve money in this modern age? even you work for money 2 · Yesterday at 5:00am José Eduardo do you say killing and kidnapping in "this modern age" is a work? and you call it "tradition"? please! read yourself!! 2 · Yesterday at 5:03am Yamamoto San Any different to other countries keeping other animals captive? the horse racing industry, greyhounds, bull rodeo, zoos, pet industry, the list goes on.... human has been utilising and keeping animals captive for thousands of years, you think that will ever change? As human learn more & more about animals, animals are going to be utilised even more, to do the jobs human do not want to do. 3 · Yesterday at 7:02am José Eduardo you are wrong Yamamoto, animals are less used to do the jobs humans do. Have you ever read about evolution? 1 · Yesterday at 7:19am Emmanuel Chanel José Eduardo: Don't you know medical examinations with animals? And you don't know that sera of tetanus is made by killing and torturing horses? 1 · Yesterday at 8:56am José Eduardo and that´s why Japanese people kill, kidnap and sell dolphins and then say: tradition? we are talking about millions of dollars you get doing this. A lot of money is the real reason for your "tradition" or can you say me you don't know about it? 1 · Yesterday at 9:07am · Edited Emmanuel Chanel The point that dolphin fishery is an industry is not contradiction with the fact that the point that it's a tradition. Millions of dollars? Out of the question for the contradiction. It's your illusion that tradition shouldn't be evolved for industrial sakes. First of all, you want to force us stop dolphin fishery, huh? 2 · Yesterday at 9:59am José Eduardo force? no, you should know dolphins are smarter than you think, dolphins must have something special due to Japanese people not only eat them but also sell them alive for spectacles 2 · Yesterday at 11:02am Emmanuel Chanel >no, you should know dolphins are smarter than you think No, you should know what you say is stupid. First of all, dolphins don't belong even to one family of species. It's worse than mixing lions with cats since lions and cats belong to cat family. It's very basic biology. In Japan, people can understand easily without even bachelor's degree of biology. Don't you know that? 2 · Yesterday at 11:20am José Eduardo Pfff Yesterday at 12:08pm I'll Be Back http://www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Not-clever-Flipper-Experts... Not so clever now, Flipper! Experts say dolphins' whistling isn't real A new paper suggests behavioural studies... dailymail.co.uk 3 · Yesterday at 4:42pm José Eduardo if this is a "work" as you call this murder why do you occult under tarps?? what honor is hiding!! 23 hrs Yamada Gaku Seems Eduardo doesn't know what is the business. 1 · 18 hrs Cristian Rival José estos perfiles son fantasmas que reciben dinero del gobierno japonés para justificar sus actividades furtivas que ya han sido debidamente condenadas no solo por las naciones unidas en el caso de los delfines por ser una especie migratoria sino tambien por la corte internacional de La Haya en el caso de la caza ilegal de ballenas!!! Los lazos del primer ministro Shinzo Abe con el clan Yamaguchi Gumi de la mafia yakuza han salido a la luz y tomaran fuerza durante los juegos olimpicos del 2020 donde tendremos una oportunidad historica de mostrar los crimenes del gobierno japones contra la vida marina de nuestro planeta a todo el mundo!!! 1 · 8 hrs José Eduardo Gracias Cristian, todo lleno de pus entonces, pero ha de acabar! 7 hrs Cristian Rival Komatsu, your island can't afford not listening... December 26 at 4:38pm Hide 10 Replies Dan Drexler If good points like that I'm shocked Taiji has not stopped hunts yet... 3 · December 26 at 6:01pm Phil Vokey "can't afford not listening" ? They've been not listening to the Cove Gawkers for 5 years now, and it hasn't cost a penny! (lol) 4 · December 26 at 6:09pm Cristian Rival LLP December 26 at 6:49pm Phil Vokey CR = Cock Roach 2 · December 26 at 7:48pm · Edited Cristian Rival Cock in your mouth pig December 26 at 7:58pm Phil Vokey You even talk trash, Cock Roach. 3 · December 26 at 11:36pm Yamamoto San Japanese just dont listen to ignorant dolphin fanatics 2 · Yesterday at 5:01am Cristian Rival Phil= low life pig Yesterday at 5:31am Phil Vokey La Cucaracha 5 hrs Cristian Rival Que viejo puto sos Phil!!! Disfruta de los pocos dias que te quedan sorete!!! 4 hrs ひらい とよみ WE are JAPANESE,,,WE are not KOREAN,,,//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju2oToXNbKU#t=201 December 26 at 7:44pm Phil Vokey LOL! "it appears" is not quite authentic reporting.... but I'm sure it will help a lot of you ARAs get your $#!t in knot. Here....let me share a little poem from a friend of mine that will help you get further constipated...... She calls this one "An Ode to the Cove Gawkers"......."Dolphins are dying. Fresh meat is frying. The Sea Sheep are crying by the shore. They tweet and bleat so loud; still the fishermen stand proud because the cove runs red once more!" 4 · December 26 at 8:30pm Jean Homsy What kind of sick person are you 2 · Yesterday at 10:21pm Phil Vokey I'm not sick at all. I just don't let ARA freaks do my thinking for me. Right or wrong, like it or not, most of the human race eats meat and not all of us can buy it at the neighbourhood grocery store. The fishermen in Taiji harvest a sustainable natural resource....dolphin meat. It is their choice and their right. Get over it. 1 · 21 hrs · Edited Cristian Rival Jean, Phil is a low life pig hired by the PM's office in orther to try to defend their crimes agains OUR Planet Ocean!!! 13 hrs Phil Vokey LOL! Cock Roach, I truly wish that I could get paid for making fools of idiots like you. It would be the easiest money I've ever made. I'd be retiring as a rich man in a very short time! 1 · 5 hrs Phil Vokey @...JH.... I'm not sick. I don't like the idea of any creature dying but that's where meat comes from. I just like to poke the radical ARAs because they go beserk over next to nothing and the fact is...a good dose of reality drives them over the edge. 4 hrs Cristian Rival Good luck on chemo Phil!!! 4 hrs Phil Vokey LOL! That's all done long ago and it worked great! I explained that to you on a different thread already! Like it or not, Cock Roach, I'm healthy and I'm going to be around for a long time yet, so you may as well get used to being proven an idiot..... again and again. 1 · 4 hrs Phil Vokey As far as me working for the Japanese government goes, that's just another of your idiotic notions, Cock Roach. I am Canadian. That's the only citizenship I have. I have a lot of Japanese contacts and friends but that is mainly because of my business. I make my living in the steel industry and seamless steel piping is my specialty. Due to complications with imports, customs and 'distribution rights', I do most of my business through intermediate suppliers instead of direct business with Japanese manufacturers and/or suppliers. I try to limit my inventory to the best products which, in my business, happens to be made in Japan. 1 · 3 hrs Gokhan Yazici 緊 急。 、タイでウイグルトルコの人々を助けてください。中国はそれらのすべてを殺すためにタイからの彼らが欲しい (Urgent. Please, help Uighur Turkish peoples in Thailand. China want they from Thailand for kill all of them.) 3 · Yesterday at 12:37am Stephen Barnett Are you saying this news? http://news.yahoo.com/china-wants-uighur-refugees-back... I support Uighur/ Tibet/ Hong Kong/Taiwan's independence movement from China. China has committed barbaric massacre in Uighur and Tibet. 5 · Yesterday at 1:40am ひらい とよみ ohh,,,,, Stephen, you are a nice man! good bye 2014,,,,welcome 2015 thanks テキサス親父!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBjsRJEiQTA 3 · Yesterday at 1:55am Gokhan Yazici yeah. thanks you. 1 · Yesterday at 2:07am Lisa Walker Gokhan, please contact NPO called Japan Association for Refugees. https://m.facebook.com/ja4refugees?_rdr Japan Association for Refugees (JAR) Non-Profit Organization Japan Association for Refugees (JAR)'s photo. Japan Association for Refugees (JAR) 5,324 Likes 1,779 talking about this 3 · Yesterday at 2:19am Gokhan Yazici Thank you Lisa. 1 · Yesterday at 2:20am Lisa Walker It's okay. I think they would be more helpful than our government. Website http://www.refugee.or.jp/en/ Supporting refugees in Japan - Japan Association for Refugees JAR, Japan Association for Refugees, is an... refugee.or.jp|By Japan Association for Refugees 3 · Yesterday at 2:23am Ricardo Bucog Good Evening your Excellency PRIME MINISTER SHINZO ABE, long live Japan 1 · Yesterday at 5:04am Cristian Rival Sucker 9 hrs Tamezou Kawamura ++ South Korea's Invasion of Japan South Korea has been occupying Takeshima with no basis in international law. Any measures the Republic of Korea takes regarding Takeshima based on such an illegal occupation have no legal justification. Japan will continue to seek the settlement of the dispute of the territorial sovereignty over Takeshima on the basis of international law in a calm and peaceful manner. Note: The Republic of Korea has never demonstrated any clear basis for its claims that it had effective control over Takeshima prior to Japan’s effective control over Takeshima and reaffirmation of its territorial sovereignty in 1905. http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/takeshima/index.html 1 · Yesterday at 7:22am Tamezou Kawamura ++ This article is quite a good portrait of modern Chinese Imperialism. The Six Wars to be fought by China in the coming 50 years The 1st War: Unification of Taiwan (Year 2020 to 2025) The 2nd War: “Reconquest” of Spratly Islands (Year 2025 to 2030) The 3rd War: “Reconquest” of Southern Tibet (Year 2035 to 2040) The 4th War: “Reconquest” of Senkaku Island and Okinawa Islands (Year 2040 to 2045) The 5th War: Unification of Outer Mongolia (Year 2045 to 2050) The 6th War: Taking back of lands lost to Russia (Year 2055 to 2060) http://midnightexpress2046.wordpress.com/.../the-six.../ Yesterday at 7:22am Karen Allman http://www.dailymotion.com/.../xdxc9t_tvxs-gr-o-%CF%8C%CF... 2 · Yesterday at 1:04pm Stephen Barnett http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3wCWXE6Fjw... Navy Sonar Blasts Whales and Dolphins! Urgent! The U.S Navy has now permission to "take"... youtube.com 2 · Yesterday at 3:30pm I'll Be Back http://thewinterdolphinchronicles.wordpress.com/.../when.../ 3 · Yesterday at 4:45pm Cristian Rival We are against the killing of whales and dolphins everywhere!!! You 'll be back to your hole sucker!!! Yesterday at 7:43pm · Edited Yamamoto San @Cristian Rival - We are also against self-righteous dolphin fanatics everywhere, i think it's you who are the suckers, how many dolphins have you saved in the last 10 years? 2 · Yesterday at 9:20pm Phil Vokey Just to help you out, Cock Roach, that answer ryhmes with 'hero'. 2 · 23 hrs Phil Vokey The daily commotion (lol) A lot of fuss over other people's food. Get over it. The Cove is a cheap a$$ lie. Same with Blackfish. 3 · Yesterday at 9:46pm Jean Homsy Please put on the agenda the slaughter that is taking place in TAIJI. Innocent dolphins are being killed daily. sHAME on you, JAPAN Yesterday at 10:20pm Phil Vokey I guess you're not aware, JH, that your comments here will not be seen by the Prime Minister of Japan or any of his office personnel. This is not a 2 way communication with him or his office. This is an INFORMATION ONLY page FROM the Office of the PM of Japan that has been translated into Engish. If this page was read or monitored, most of the radical ARAs that spam this page with insults and attacks against the people of Japan would be booted and banned from here. 2 · 22 hrs · Edited Beejay Cody I think the people who were involved in Blackfish know more about Orcas and captivity than you PV, you claim it is a lie so let's see. 1. SeaWorld has captive Orcas...Yes 2. SeaWorld artificially inseminate/collects sperm..Yes 3. Tilikum killed Dawn Brancheau and others...Yes 4. SeaWorld keep a 12,000lb Orca in a swimming pool...Yes. 5. SeaWorld's disregard of the mother-baby bond, ripping babies from their screaming mothers...Yes. The only thing that's a cheap lie on this page are your comments. 1 · 15 hrs Cristian Rival Who supplies dolphines to SW and other theme parks? Taiji fisherscums!!!! 9 hrs Stephen Barnett Christian blame it on WAZA who let Taiji fishermen hunt dolphins for their SeaWorld. Supplier is just working hard to meet the demand from foreign buyers. 4 hrs Phil Vokey @...Cock Roach.... There hasn't been a dolphin moved from Japan to the USA since 1989. The live dolphins from Taiji hunts are sold to Asian dolphinariums. 4 hrs Phil Vokey Just in case you aren't aware, JH, your comments will not be read by the PM of Japan or any other government personnel. This is an INFORMATION ONLY page FROM the Office of the PM of Japan that has been translated into English. This is not a 2 way communication thread. If it was, most of the radical ARAs who continuously spam this page with insults and attacks of the Japanese people would be booted and banned from here. 1 · 22 hrs · Edited José Eduardo there goes your $$$ "tradition" https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/.../10313823... 1 · 23 hrs Stephen Barnett You are from Peru, dolphin killing country where fishermen have been slaughtering thousands of dolphins every year (more than Taiji's quota!) I guess they are still poaching even after a ban 1 · 17 hrs Lisa Walker I've been to Peru. Peruvians eat marmot and guinea pigs and many other exotic animals that most countries never eat. In the rest of the world, marmot are pet. In Japan, they are treated very nicely. Guinea pigs enjoy hot spting. Have a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycirOqMWEiw... Japan: This guinea pig bridge will warm your soul The Nagasaki Bio Park Zoo has found a... youtube.com 1 · 7 hrs Phil Vokey LOL! You've no business to talk, JE. There are 15000 dolphins slaughtered in your home country of Peru every year. A lot of those are used for bait! Why aren't you whining about that? Can you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e ? 2 · 21 hrs · Edited Francis Anthony 暴かれた水族館の裏側（アーカイブ配信動画） https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdCp3ZzneUM&feature=youtu.be 20 hrs Phil Vokey Another protest from a small minority. 4 · 20 hrs Bert Stankowski https://www.facebook.com/bert.stankowski/media_set... Ϯ RIP 19 hrs Hide 12 Replies Stephen Barnett Swiss KILLERS should stop eating dogs and cats. Shame of Europe. RIP http://mobile.abc.net.au/.../bid-to-stop-the.../5918842 Dog's dinner: Bid to stop the Swiss eating pets Thousands of Swiss eat cats and dogs,... abc.net.au 2 · 18 hrs · Edited Phil Vokey Wow! What a tough guy you are, BS. Typical ARA freak . Yap off and then close you post so nobody can reply. Well, at least your initials suit you! 3 · 18 hrs · Edited Phil Vokey Still enjoying your 'bow wow chow' ? 2 · 18 hrs Bert Stankowski Hi Phil, I love you! 17 hrs Bert Stankowski Your so an idiot, and idiots are lovable. They need our help ! like dolphins. 1 · 17 hrs Yamamoto San Looks like you are looking into the mirror Bert? you are really lovable 2 · 16 hrs Phil Vokey It's spelled 'You're'..... idiot! 1 · 16 hrs Cristian Rival Bert, they are not idiots but low life pigs who earn money doing this, Yamamoto is not even a real person anyway... 1 · 13 hrs Bert Stankowski Thanks Cristian, I love to discuss with "nobody's" like Yamamoto-san LOL 1 · 10 hrs Lisa Walker Wow you are collecting Fishermen's pictures as if you are a fan of them. Many of those IMATA trainers are Chinese (women don't even look Japanese in my eyes) as China is the biggest importer of dolphins from Taiji. 1 · 6 hrs Phil Vokey These guys are so silly, LW, and don't even know what they're saying or showing. The live dolphins from Taiji are ALL sold to Asian dolphinariums. None of them go to Europe or North America. 1 · 2 hrs Lisa Walker Yeah.. Phil... He created the album of his ''hateful enemy''. Typical weird stalkers do such a thing. Main importers of Taiji dolphins in recent years are China, South Korea, Vietnam, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Mexico. 1 hr · Edited Peter Boyd The Minamata Bay disaster. Minamata is located on the coast of Japan's western most island. The city and the adjacent Minamata Bay form a relatively closed ecosystem: the bay was a source of fish--and roughly 80% of the city's source of protein--until the mid-1950s, when the reality of mercury poisoning from the Chisso factory quickly had a devastating effect on its local residents. 60 years later, the situation is being repeated in the Taiji cove. Gross criminal negligence, premeditated harm, knowledge of brain/body deformity and/or loss of life is the real truth based on the Japanese government’s records of the Minamata Bay killings. Through the 1970s and 80s, new patients continued to surface from the Chisso effects. Minamata disease is a severe neurological syndrome with symptoms of ataxia, paralysis, impaired vision, hearing and speech, and in extreme cases insanity, coma, and death. Given the potentially disastrous scope of the problem, the Japanese government used its go-to trademark behavior by NOT verifying any of the patients. Even so, 1,760 victims have been confirmed; almost 3,000 more await verification--of which 412 have already died. Over 8,000 have been denied status. No one can be sure of the extent of the damage, but one neuropsychiatrist at a local university estimates that 10,000 victims exist currently and that at least 3,000 have died. Over $611 million has been paid to victims in compensation. The Minamata disease is once again alive and well in the offshore fishing grounds of Taiji and it’s only a matter of time before another wave of mercury poisoned children will surface in local hospitals. When this happens, will the deceitful side of Japanese politics rush in to cover it up as their own citizen’s suffer and die? Or will they shut down this pointless, criminal endeavor? Two Taiji councilmen have broken the “code of silence” and have stood up against children eating toxic dolphin meat. Cetaceans are at the top of the food chain and long-lived, therefore they bio-accumulate marine pollutants in their internal organs and muscle, especially heavy metals like mercury. Please, shut down the Taiji operations before you kill more of your own children. Thank you, Peter 1 · 17 hrs · Edited Yamamoto San You seem to know nothing about Minamata, please go back & do more homework, your ignorance is embarassing 2 · 16 hrs Cristian Rival Yamamoto is the best paid troll of PM's office Peter, they are pretty concerned about people waking up with the olimpics coming foward... The eyes of the world are over Japan!!! 14 hrs Peter Boyd Thank you, Cristian. After the repeated attacks, I got the feeling that might be the case. 1 · 13 hrs Phil Vokey You're an idiot, Cock Roach. How could Yamamoto not be a real person and be 'the best paid troll of PM's office' ? You don't make any sense at all. (<- that's your cue for some stupid imaginary chemo remark) 1 hr Peter Boyd If you don't shut down Taiji, and more children end up dead or deformed because of the mercury in the dolphins and whales, then just imagine the massive class-action lawsuits, both locally and internationally. Do you really want this kind of attention to fall upon your country because of a small and dead fishing village? I have been to beautiful, Japan and I know hardly anyone is aware of these daily tragedies in Taiji. I think this time, it is about save face with the world. Please remember, "Two Taiji councilmen have broken the “code of silence” and have stood up against children eating toxic dolphin meat." Thank you, Prime Minister. 2 · 16 hrs Yamamoto San LOL.. peddling your lies and scaremongering? show me one single verified case of anyone got sick eating dolphins or whales. I think your "mercury toxic" crap is getting rather stale & boring 2 · 16 hrs Bert Stankowski Yamamoto, the best example of brains sickness by whale- and dolphin meat is yourself. Your brain is mess and scum! 10 hrs Phil Vokey You're as dumb as Cock Roach, BS. You said I was the best example. Just to help you out a little, let me explain something to you.... There can only be one best. 1 hr Peter Boyd Feel free to educate yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease 1 · 16 hrs Yamamoto San One hint for you, the Minamata people that got sick didnt even eat dolphin or whale. They got sick from eating common fish, shell fish, due to concentrated pollution into a small bay area, that sort of concentration is never found in the wider ocean. 1 · 16 hrs · Edited Peter Boyd Truth will surface, as it always does, Mr. San. 16 hrs Peter Boyd There is no need to be in denial, which seems to be a national psychological trait. Stand up, be honest like a good human and take care of this weakness Japan has. It's very simple. Drop your egos and power struggles. We all have to at some point in life. 1 · 16 hrs Yamamoto San That's right Peter, please stand up and admit your lies and scaremongering about the mercury issue. 2 · 16 hrs Peter Boyd Let us bring in an international team of scientists to measure mercury levels. What are you afraid of? 5 hrs Peter Boyd The four big pollution diseases of Japan (四大公害病 yondai kōgai-byō?) were a group of man-made diseases all caused by environmental pollution due to improper handling of industrial wastes by Japanese corporations.[1] Although the first occurred in 1912, the other three occurred in the 1950s and 1960s. Name of disease Japanese prefecture affected Cause Source Year Itai-itai disease Toyama Prefecture Cadmium poisoning Mitsui Mining & Smelting Company 1912 Minamata disease Kumamoto Prefecture Methylmercury Chisso Corporation 1956 Niigata Minamata Disease Niigata Prefecture Methylmercury Showa Denko 1965 Yokkaichi Asthma Mie Prefecture Sulfur dioxide Air pollution within Yokkaichi 1961 1 · 16 hrs Peter Boyd Just to be clear, Japan is not the only country with wildlife extinction issues. This is a worldwide task. Every country has their dirty little secrets. I know that. We need to see ourselves as a whole world here, to save ourselves from our selves. Do you understand Mr. San? 1 · 16 hrs Hide 32 Replies Yamamoto San What makes you think dolphins or the whale species Japan is hunting are going extinct? Do you know what is the quota percentage vs the reproduction rate of the dolphin/whale species? 1 · 15 hrs · Edited Peter Boyd The WWF research from one month ago revealed that we have lost nearly 50% of our wildlife in the past forty years. Let me be very clear, it is NOT a Japanese problem, but a worldwide disaster and we ALL need to be smart now about OUR world as a whole. 2 · 15 hrs Yamamoto San I will support you & I'm against hunting endangered animals, killing a whole animal for just some specific parts like shark fin, rhino horns, ivory, I'm also against sport hunting or killing for fun. But I advocate sustainable hunting for food. 3 · 15 hrs Emmanuel Chanel Yamamoto San: Probably, Peter Boyd don't know even the word: RMP. It's not about dolphins. But he wouldn't know anything about the quotas, the reproductions, or the populations. 15 hrs Beejay Cody ^What about the captive trade in Taiji Yamamoto San? Do you agree with that? 15 hrs Peter Boyd Absolutely! Sustainability is a must for us all. You are a true gentleman, Mr San. I am grateful to you, thank you. We need good sensible dialogue like this to save our world. 15 hrs Peter Boyd I would hope that what I offer in words here, brings the "whole" of us together. When we are so divided, emotions rise and nothing happens. Come to the table with solutions and realistic offerings. Just my thoughts. 15 hrs Emmanuel Chanel Huh... >Come to the table with solutions and realistic offerings. We cause the commercial whaling since it has sustainability. So you should tell such a word not to us but to you, anti-whaling lunatics! 15 hrs Peter Boyd Like I said EC, When we are so divided, emotions rise and nothing happens. You have a lot of anger looping in you. 1 · 14 hrs · Edited Peter Boyd Anger produces a very small and narrow view. Keep stepping back until you can see the bigger picture, Mr Chanel. 1 · 14 hrs Emmanuel Chanel Peter Boyd: Huh? You are a terrorist or its supporter. Do you think that we need to have "good sensible dialogue" with you, huh? Especially in the case that you commit a lie that Taiji people have Minamata Disease. 14 hrs Peter Boyd Again, anger produces a very small and narrow view. 14 hrs · Edited Peter Boyd In 1970, the Japanese Water Pollution Control Act, which states that all factories are required by law to regulate disposal of dangerous chemicals, was enacted. In 1977, the Japanese government took on the task of cleaning Minamata Bay by vacuuming out 1.5 million cubic metres of methylmercury sludge from the bottom of the bay. Then in 1997, after fourteen years and $359 million, the Governor of Kumamoto prefecture deemed Minamata Bay safe. This really did take place, Mr. Chanel. 14 hrs · Edited Emmanuel Chanel Huh? Who denied Minamata Disease in Kumamoto and Niigata, idiot! In your DELUSION, I did, though. Taiji are quite far from Minamata. Don't you know that? Idilot! And you cannot read my comment below, huh? Oh... you revised the comment history in your mind, huh? 14 hrs Peter Boyd I think we owe it to the world, to have an independent international examination team measure mercury levels in the Taiji Dolphins and Whales. But, Taiji has blocked this access. Why would that be, do you think? 14 hrs Emmanuel Chanel I paste it: ----------- LoL! If we got Minamata Disease simply by eating whales and dolphins, all the people of the world's coasts would have. And there wouldn't be even the word: Minamata Disease. Can't you understand that, Peter Boyd? Especially, you read Wikipedia but you don't understand. http://www.emmanuelc.dix.asia/.../maren-roush-vs.../ >We need to see ourselves as a whole world here, to save ourselves from our selves. Do you understand Mr. San? Huh... before preaching us, you should know that Taiji people don't have Minamata Disease. If they had, it's impossible for us to miss it BECAUSE even poor people learn Minamata Disease in primary schools and middle schools. (So such a symptom would be found in 100% possibility.) And our medical researchers confirm that there's no Minamata Disease in Taiji. See: http://www.sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S0160412014000750 If you want to say that you see your dirty little secrets, FACE THE LIES of "THE COVE" And say words like: "Sorry. I was too stupid. I didn't understand what Minamata Disease is as well as what Japanese public schools teach." Maren Roush vs Emmanuel Chanel » Le Château de Emmanuel Chanel Maren Roush vs Emmanuel Chanel by Emmanuel Chanel Posted on March 7, 2014 Too many Sea Shepherd and their supporters post anti-whaling words to the official English Facebook page of Prime Minister’s Office of Japan. Maren Roush(LinkedIn/zoom info) is one of them. She says “I have a masters degree in… emmanuelc.dix.asia 14 hrs Peter Boyd You are so angry, Mr Chanel. 14 hrs Emmanuel Chanel Peter Boyd: Huh? Nobody is blocked to access Taiji. You deny even that Covies are there, huh? We, people including foreigners are free to access Taiji. Just our officials block some of you since you are scums called "environmental conservationists". Oh, there's a special term: eco-terrorists. 14 hrs Peter Boyd There has never been an independent examination of Dolphin and Whale mercury levels in Taiji. If they did allow it, where are the results? 14 hrs Peter Boyd Let's do the testing. 14 hrs Emmanuel Chanel Peter Boyd: Huh? So your parents don't teach you not to lie? You lied that Taiji people have Minamata Disease. It's natural that we hate the liers especially insulting us. Can't you understand that? 14 hrs Peter Boyd Let's test the mercury levels in Taiji, and then come back and talk. 14 hrs Peter Boyd What's to hide? 14 hrs Yamamoto San Need to commission an independent tester, not some one from anti-whaling groups. Below is some document on Japan warning to its citizen regarding mercury: http://www.mhlw.go.jp/houdou/2003/01/h0116-4.html 14 hrs Peter Boyd Forgive me, but I do not read Japanese. Would you share what it says? 14 hrs Cristian Rival Not only anti whaling but also anti poaching and polluting OUR Planet Ocean!!! 13 hrs Peter Boyd Wow, yeah. I can see why they are so defensive. 13 hrs Emmanuel Chanel Peter Boyd: If you really want to know, why don't you try the web translator? It's MHLW's 2003 release showing density of PCB, total mercury(総水銀), and methylmercury(メチル水銀) in cetacean meals. If not especially about Taiji, it's clear that nobody hides. In addition, especially you can see the item: ハンドウイルカ（紀州沖） And it means the item of Bottlenose Dolphins in offshore of Wakayama Prefecture, including Taiji. If you want to say that our government hides something, learn how to read Japanese first! The most of people including English teachers and scientists don't work in English. * MHLW = Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare So our government has already tested long time before. And you revised our history! So you are unforgiven. 1 · 13 hrs Peter Boyd I remember them trying to hide the facts about their Fukushima nuclear disaster too. "Stuart H. Smith, Esq., Mar. 3, 2014: Transcribed conversations released through the Freedom of Information Act [show] that even 100 miles from the site of the accident, radiation was 30 times higher than normal expected background levels. These findings suggest what many of us have been saying since Day One, which is that the initial accident at Fukushima was far worse than either the Japanese government or Tepco was willing to admit. Authorities in Japan must come clean about what really happened." I see a pattern here. 13 hrs Emmanuel Chanel Huh... Face the lies of the Cove before quoting that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsObTzay_8A Lies of the documentary film "The Cove" Academy Award-winning documentary film... youtube.com 2 · 13 hrs Emmanuel Chanel And face the fact that Sea Shepherd is a lier: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm14945680 戦場カメラマンと学生に追及され苛立つワトソン ポール・ワトソンがバラエティー番組で追及されて... nicovideo.jp 2 · 13 hrs Emmanuel Chanel Another video about the fact that Paul Watson advises his supporters to lie. Peter Boyd should face that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io5R9E3eHmU 1 · 13 hrs Emmanuel Chanel LoL! If we got Minamata Disease simply by eating whales and dolphins, all the people of the world's coasts would have. And there wouldn't be even the word: Minamata Disease. Can't you understand that, Peter Boyd? Especially, you read Wikipedia but you don't understand. http://www.emmanuelc.dix.asia/.../maren-roush-vs.../ >We need to see ourselves as a whole world here, to save ourselves from our selves. Do you understand Mr. San? Huh... before preaching us, you should know that Taiji people don't have Minamata Disease. If they had, it's impossible for us to miss it BECAUSE even poor people learn Minamata Disease in primary schools and middle schools. (So such a symptom would be found in 100% possibility.) And our medical researchers confirm that there's no Minamata Disease in Taiji. See: http://www.sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S0160412014000750 If you want to say that you see your dirty little secrets, FACE THE LIES of "THE COVE" And say words like: "Sorry. I was too stupid. I didn't understand what Minamata Disease is as well as what Japanese public schools teach." Maren Roush vs Emmanuel Chanel » Le Château de Emmanuel Chanel Maren Roush vs Emmanuel Chanel by Emmanuel Chanel Posted on March 7, 2014 Too many Sea Shepherd and their supporters post anti-whaling words to the official English Facebook page of Prime Minister’s Office of Japan. Maren Roush(LinkedIn/zoom info) is one of them. She says “I have a masters degree in… emmanuelc.dix.asia 4 · 15 hrs Christiane Schäfer The corruption of Japan- Police protection, coast guards ...all around agreed I. These Dolphins hunts and captures. this is the same xountry that stole millions from Tsunami relief funds plunging millions into fishieries and illegal whaling. A country with no honor or shame breaking international laws and sanctuaries should not hold a world event 2020 Olympics. Please contact WAZA, UNITED NATIONS and OLYMPIC COMMITTEE !! JAPAN HAS IGNORED THE WORLD OUT CRIES TO END THESE ATROCITIES. 4 · 14 hrs Emmanuel Chanel Don't tell a lie again! See the audit reports of Japan Red Cross: http://jrc.or.jp/eq-japan2011/ The most of the donations from overseas are made through Red Cross. If you want to cause that our government uses the tsunami fund of Red Cross and so on with the donation from overseas, prove it! Read this and understand it!: The URI below is about the 311 earthquake published on 16 Dec. 2011. It's on the official website of Minshutou, Democratic Party in Japan. It was the ruling party till late Dec. 2012. (So Danie Ha is too ignorant since she criticize PM Shinzo Abe for that. He is the president of Liberal Democratic Party.) >　福島の地域経済再生に向けては、県からの要望を踏まえ、第３次補正予算において復興基金の造成など総額約５３４０億円を措置し、医療や再生可能エネルギーといった新たな産業・雇用の創出や企業立地に向けた取り組みなどを図ることとしています。さらには、福島県が置かれている特殊な事情に鑑み、その対策を講じるための特別立法が必要と考えており、次期通常国会に法案を提出できるよう検討を進めています。 Translation: For the purpose of the regional economical restoration of Fukushima, with considering the prefecture's request, on the 3rd revised budget, we take steps by PREPARATION OF THE RESTORATION FUND and so on with 534 billion yen in total. With that, we attempt medical services, new inductries like renewable energy, job creation, industrial loction, and so on. In addition, considering the special situation placed in Fukushima Prefecture, we think that we need special legistrations and we consider them to present the draft bills in the next ordinary sessin of the parliament. http://www.dpj.or.jp/.../%E5%AF%84%E7%A8%BF%E3%80%80%E9... Our Reconstruction Agency of the government has released these: >東日本大震災復興交付金基金管理運営要領 Translation: The Management and Operation Guidelines Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake Grant Fund >平成24年１月13日 Translation: 13 Jan. Heisei 24(* 2012) >(Omitted) >第３ 復興交付金基金の運営 >１．復興交付金基金の造成 Translation: 3. Operation of the Great East Japan Earthquake Grant Fund Translation: +- 1. Creation of the Great East Japan Earthquake Grant Fund >復興交付金基金は、交付要綱に基づき、国からの交付金を受けて造成するものとする。(Omitted) Translation: the Great East Japan Earthquake Grant Fund is prepared by the grant-in-aid from the state(Japanese government). (Omitted) https://www.reconstruction.go.jp/.../hukkoukouhukinkikink... See also http://law.e-gov.go.jp/htmldata/H24/H24F10013001001.html https://www.reconstruction.go.jp/topics/20121691100.pdf https://www.reconstruction.go.jp/.../20130129... https://www.reconstruction.go.jp/topics/tousho.pdf So Yoree Koh of Wall Street Journal wrote this: >But this year, onlookers are not only taking issue with the whaling expedition itself, but how extra government funding for the trip is being drawn from money intended to be used for reconstruction efforts from the March 11 disasters. The funds are from Japan’s own national budget, not charitable donations from overseas. http://blogs.wsj.com/.../use-of-recovery-funds-stokes.../ Japan Earthquake & Tsunami | Japan Earthquake & Tsunami ページの説明 jrc.or.jp 3 · 13 hrs Dan Drexler So copy and paste SSCS fun... 1 · 12 hrs Lisa Walker Schäfer, you really love stupid bullshits. You just never LEARN, do you? "stole millions from Tsunami relief funds'' - NO. It's a propaganda by Sea Shepherd Liars as if tsunami donation was used for research whaling. ALL the donations was handled by the Japanese Red Cross while the governmental budget is all from OUR TAX. Do you understand what I mean? Stop believing Sea Shepherd Liars. "breaking international law'' - NO. Like it or not, research whaling is 100% legal under international law. The US Court judged that Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd have broken the international law in the Southern Ocean. "Please contact WAZA'' - They already know the dolphin hunt because hundreds of Japanese Animal Rights groups handed the petition to WAZA. But they still permit the captive trade in Taiji. Why don't you study more about this issue if you continue trolling here?? 1 · 7 hrs · Edited Susana Luna es tradicion tambien en taiji, vender delfines a los acuarios para su cautiverio eterno?? 1 · 14 hrs Cristian Rival Es una tradicion de mafiosos como los del clan Yakuza Yamaguchi Gumi y sus lazos comprobados con los ministros del corrupto Shinzo Abe!!! 2 · 13 hrs Peter Boyd Radiation hot spots are popping up around the United States in the thousands of percentages higher than ‘background radiation’, mutated wildlife is being found dead on the same West Coast beaches where increased radiation levels have been documented by independent researchers, and the Fukushima TEPCO plant workers have been caught using duct tape to fix their nuclear equipment. But according to the Japanese government, these events mean absolutely nothing. Yeah. There's definitely a pattern of lies going on here. 1 · 13 hrs · Edited Lisa Walker Radiation hot spots are popping up around the United States BECAUSE radioactive leaks were found at 75% of US Nuclear plants! US Nuclear plants have been leaking toxic radiation for decades. Nevada and three mile island still have hot spots because of hundreds of nuclear tests and the accident. http://www.cbsnews.com/.../radioactive-leaks-found-at-75.../ Radioactive leaks found at 75% of US nuke sites AP investigation finds most commercial... cbsnews.com 6 hrs Peter Boyd Yes, they have. In my notes here I expressed it's NOT just Japan, but the world. Each country is doing crazy damage and has to stop. I hope I made that clear. 6 hrs Lisa Walker "According to the Japanese government, these events mean absolutely nothing.'' What do you mean? They are working on it seriously, probably more than any other governments. PM Abe visited Fukushima countless times to communicate with local residents and discuss about the reconstruction. Why don't you stop your negative campaign based on wrong assumptions and biases? http://p-search.kantei.go.jp/en_kantei/search.x... Site Search | Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet - fukushima p-search.kantei.go.jp 1 · 5 hrs Peter Boyd Lisa Walker, are you a fake facebook page? 5 hrs Lisa Walker No. Are you? Will you please stop your meaningless propaganda? 1 · 5 hrs Peter Boyd People sometimes get very upset when they have to look at themselves and get honest. There are millions of people around the world wondering why Japan lies all the time. I'm just one of them. 5 hrs Lisa Walker What lie? You made up 1 · 5 hrs Lisa Walker You just WANT TO THINK that Japan lies, but you are the one who tell all these lies. Everybody in the world can check Fukushima update if you really concern. Here you are. http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/fukushima Fukushima Nuclear Accident | International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano... iaea.org 1 · 5 hrs Lisa Walker The Japanese government has already admitted that TEPCO has been struggling to fix the plant from day one. What are you trying to say? Rather, I have never heard that the government of US, UK, France, Canada etc warn about radiation problems of their nuclear plants. 1 · 4 hrs Peter Boyd The costly fallout of tatemae and Japan’s culture of deceit by Debito Arudou Nov 1, 2011 Article history PRINT SHARE There is an axiom in Japanese: uso mo hōben — “lying is also a means to an end.” It sums up the general attitude in Japan of tolerance of — even justification for — not telling the truth. First — defining “telling the truth” as divulging the truth (not a lie), the whole truth (full disclosure) and nothing but the truth (uncompounded with lies) — consider how lies are deployed in everyday personal interactions. Let’s start with good old tatemae (charitably translated as “pretense”). By basically saying something you think the listener wants to hear, tatemae is, essentially, lying. That becomes clearer when the term is contrasted with its antonym, honne, one’s “true feelings and intentions.” Tatemae, however, goes beyond the “little white lie,” as it is often justified less by the fact you have avoided hurting your listener’s feelings, more by what you have gained from the nondisclosure. But what if you disclose your true feelings? That’s often seen negatively, as baka shōjiki (“stupidly honest”): imprudent, naive, even immature. Skillful lying is thus commendable — it’s what adults in society learn to do. Now extrapolate. What becomes of a society that sees lying as a justifiably institutionalized practice? Things break down. If everyone is expected to lie, who or what can you trust? Consider law enforcement. Japan’s lack of even the expectation of full disclosure means, for example, there is little right to know your accuser (e.g., in bullying cases). In criminal procedure, the prosecution controls the flow of information to the judge (right down to what evidence is admissible). And that’s before we get into how secretive and deceptive police interrogations are infamous for being. Consider jurisprudence. Witnesses are expected to lie to such an extent that Japan’s perjury laws are weak and unenforceable. Civil court disputes (try going through, for example, a divorce) often devolve into one-upmanship lying matches, flippantly dismissed as “he-said, she-said” (mizukake-ron). And judges, as seen in the Valentine case (Zeit Gist, Aug. 14, 2007), will assume an eyewitness is being untruthful simply based on his/her attributes — in this case because the witness was foreign like the plaintiff. Consider administrative procedure. Official documents and public responses attach organizational affiliations but few actual names for accountability. Those official pronouncements, as I’m sure many readers know due to arbitrary Immigration decisions, often fall under bureaucratic “discretion” (sairyō), with little if any right of appeal. And if you need further convincing, just look at the loopholes built into Japan’s Freedom of Information Act. All this undermines trust of public authority. Again, if bureaucrats (like everyone else) are not expected to fully disclose, society gets a procuracy brazenly ducking responsibility wherever possible through vague directives, masked intentions and obfuscation. This is true to some degree of all bureaucracies, but the problem in Japan is that this nondisclosure goes relatively unpunished. Our media watchdogs, entrusted with upholding public accountability, often get distracted or corrupted by editorial or press club conceits. Or, giving reporters the benefit of the doubt, it’s hard to know which lyin’ rat to pounce on first when there are so many. Or journalists themselves engage in barely researched, unscientific or sensationalistic reporting, undermining their trustworthiness as information sources. Public trust, once lost, is hard to regain. In such a climate, even if the government does tell the truth, people may still disbelieve it. Take, for example, the Environment Ministry’s recent strong-arming of regional waste management centers to process Tohoku disaster ruins: Many doubt government claims that radioactive rubble will not proliferate nationwide, fanning fears that the nuclear power industry is trying to make itself less culpable for concentrated radiation poisoning by irradiating everyone (see www.debito.org/?p=954!)! Apologists would say (and they do) that lying is what everyone in positions of power does worldwide, since power itself corrupts. But there is the matter of degree, and in Japan there is scant reward for telling the truth — and ineffective laws to protect whistle-blowers. It took a brave foreign CEO at Olympus Corp. to come out recently about corporate malfeasance; he was promptly sacked, reportedly due to his incompatibility with “traditional Japanese practices.” Yes, quite so. This tradition of lying has a long history. The Japanese Empire’s deception about its treatment of prisoners of war and noncombatants under the Geneva Conventions (e.g., the Bataan Death March, medical experiments under Unit 731), not to mention lying to its own civilians about how they would be treated if captured by the Allies, led to some of the most horrifying mass murder-suicides of Japanese, dehumanizing reprisals by their enemies, and war without mercy in World War II’s Pacific Theater. Suppressing those historical records, thanks to cowardice among Japan’s publishers, reinforced by a general lack of “obligation to the truth,” has enabled a clique of revisionists to deny responsibility for Japan’s past atrocities, alienating it from its neighbors in a globalizing world. Even today, in light of Fukushima, Japan’s development into a modern and democratic society seems to have barely scratched the surface of this culture of deceit. Government omerta and omission kept the nation ignorant about the most basic facts — including reactor meltdowns — for months! Let me illustrate the effects of socially accepted lying another way: What is considered the most untrustworthy of professions? Politics, of course. Because politicians are seen as personalities who, for their own survival, appeal to people by saying what they want to hear, regardless of their own true feelings. That is precisely what tatemae does to Japanese society. It makes everyone into a politician, changing the truth to suit their audience, garner support or deflect criticism and responsibility. Again, uso mo hoben: As long as you accomplish your goals, lying is a means to an end. The incentives in Japan are clear. Few will tell the truth if they will be punished for doing so, moreover rarely punished for not doing so. No doubt a culturally relativistic observer would attempt to justify this destructive dynamic by citing red herrings and excuses (themselves tatemae) such as “conflict avoidance,” “maintaining group harmony,” “saving face,” or whatever. Regardless, the awful truth is: “We Japanese don’t lie. We just don’t tell the truth.” This is not sustainable. Post-Fukushima Japan must realize that public acceptance of lying got us into this radioactive mess in the first place. For radiation has no media cycle. It lingers and poisons the land and food chain. Statistics may be obfuscated or suppressed as usual. But radiation’s half-life is longer than the typical attention span or sustainable degree of public outrage. As the public — possibly worldwide — sickens over time, the truth will leak out. 1 · 13 hrs Lisa Walker Radioactive leaks were found at 75% of all US nuclear sites. Many US nuclear plants are messed up like this latest news. Your nasty attempt is odd because people know that the radioactive pollution in the U.S are caused by US nuclear plants and US nuke tests. http://rt.com/usa/192300-hanford-nuclear-waste-leak/ Hanford nuclear waste tank will leak for at least another year ​A deal struck between the US Dept of Energy... rt.com 6 hrs Peter Boyd Lisa Walker, contact Facebook. They are interested in who you really are. 5 hrs Dan Drexler You have a real love for Japan Peter Boyd 1 · 5 hrs Peter Boyd Like everywhere, there's good apples and bad. 5 hrs Lisa Walker Contacted both Facebook and the Japanese government. They are interested in who you spammer really are. 1 · 5 hrs Peter Boyd Like I said, why lie? 5 hrs Lisa Walker What are you driving at? But no wonder you are awfully brainwashed and write stupid things after reading this type of old biased stupid article. 2 · 5 hrs Phil Vokey "...contact Facebook. They are interested in who you really are." ..... Trust me on this one, PB, if FaceBook is intersted in who someone really is, they will contact them. (lol) 1 hr Lisa Walker Oh Peter Boyd, you blocked me because I pointed out your nonsense? Coward. 5 · 4 hrs Phil Vokey Most of them are like that, LW....They just can't cope with truth and reality....PB is just another example of that truth. 5 · 2 hrs · Edited