Japanese Embassy Under Pressure: Whale Meat Scandal

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Japanese Embassy Under Pressure: Whale Meat Scandal

2008-05-22

12:16:54, by Federico Ferrero, 403 words

Categories: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Biology, Whales and Whaling, Japan, Experiments, Experimentation and Experimentals

Japanese Embassy Under Pressure: Whale Meat Scandal

Canberra, Thursday, May 22, 2008: Greenpeace activists today delivered a letter to the Ambassador of Japan at the Japanese Embassy in Canberra, calling for an open and transparent investigation of the scandal around stolen whale meat from the whale ship Nisshin Maru.

Greenpeace came to the Japanese Embassy with a banner that says, "Stolen Whale Meat Scandal" in Japanese writing. The delivery coincides with similar activities at Japanese Embassies in other countries attending the G8 Environment Ministers' meeting.

"Greenpeace welcomes the recent announcement by the Tokyo district Public Prosecutor that they will investigate the Greenpeace evidence of whale-meat embezzlement," said Greenpeace Campaigner Rob Nicoll in Canberra today. "But to maintain environmental credibility the government of Japan needs to ensure that it will be an open and transparent investigation. They should also suspend the issue of whaling permits."

A four-month Greenpeace undercover investigation has revealed disturbing evidence of an embezzlement ring involving crewmembers on board the Japanese whaling ship, the Nisshin Maru.

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