Japan

On June 27, three Hong Kong citizen journalists who have been registered with the Citizens’ Media Center (Sapporo) in Japan were detained by Immigration, and were on the verge of being deported. The following morning, Susan George (ATTAC France) was stopped and questioned at the airport. Ms George is 74 years old, and her detention demonstrates a lack of humanity on the part of authorities. Protest and Repression is escalating because the G8 is taking place in Japan, between the 7th and 9th of July in Hokkaido.

Japan Indymedia | Mobilization Video | G8 Media Network | No G8 Japan | Background: Resistance action against police in Kamagasaki

Skye Bortoli of Australian Teens Against Whaling has described the 60th International Whaling Commission meeting in Chile as pathetic saying “this body will be known in the future as a small group of ecologically arrogant people who are condemning the world’s whales to agony and oblivion for petty politics and a few lousy bucks.”

UK Indymedia Feature | Sea Shepherd

Tokyo, May 15th 2008: Following this morning's revelation by Greenpeace
of large-scale corruption within the Japanese government-sponsored
Southern Ocean whaling programme, the environmental group delivered a
complaint to the Tokyo district Public Prosecutor's Office, who gave
assurance that the details of the case will be reviewed, pending a
decision to mount a criminal investigation.

War or Federation for Taiwan and China: a powerful way to aviod war and move toward peace:

China and the New World Order:

How Entrepreneurship, Globalization, and Borderless Business are Reshaping China and the World (Book Excerpts)

by George Zhibin Gu
Foreword by William Ratliff
Publisher: Fultus; October 2006; 248 pages

taken from; http://www.financialsense.com

A New World Order in the Making?

China and the New World Order:

How Entrepreneurship, Globalization, and Borderless Business are Reshaping China and the World (Book Excerpts)

by George Zhibin Gu
Foreword by William Ratliff
Publisher: Fultus; 248 pages

taken from; http://www.financialsense.com

Part VIII
The Japan-China Issue: Evolving Relations in Light of History

SUMMARY

Reports
from the International Whaling Commission 3 day intercessional meeting
in London say that commercial whaling may be allowed but the scientific
loophole which has allowed Japan to whale in the Antarctic may be
closed. This would allow Japan to whale commercially in the north
Pacific regulated by the IWC. The meeting also rebuked Sea Shepherd
over "Safety at Sea".

Related: Japanese Coast Guard shoots Paul Watson, injures Sea Shepherd crew

Anti-whaling activists from Sea Shepherd
have confronted the whaling factory ship, Nisshin Maru in the Southern
Ocean Whale Sanctuary between 0800 and 1000 Hours on March 3, 175 miles
off the Antarctic Banzare Coast inside the Australian Economic
Exclusion Zone. During the confrontation the Sea Shepherd crew threw
bottles of rotten butter (Butyric acid) and a 'slippery chemical' onto
the decks of the whaling ship. (Sea Shepherd Video report)

People gathered outside the Japanese consulate in Melbourne on January 3 to protest against the Japanese whaling fleet slaughtering whales in the southern ocean. At the centre of the crowd was Jamie Yew from Animal Liberation Victoria dyed red on the Japanese flag with the red sun dripping "blood", symbolic of the whale slaughter.

Related: Protest photos | US Japan deal gives the Unofficial nod to Commercial Whaling

Ten activists from Animal Liberation Victoria poured fake blood over themselves in a protest at the Japanese Consulate in Melbourne on December 27. Dressed in white body suits and carrying signs saying "Ban Whaling" the activists walked into the consulate on the 45th floor of the Melbourne Central Building on Elizabeth Street to send a strong message to the Japanese Government over whaling in the Southern Ocean whaling Sanctuary.

The Japanese Government has announced a suspension of the slaughter of 50 humpback whales due to increasing worldwide attention on the Japanese commercial whaling operation masquerading as a scientific expedition. The United States brokered the deal, which Japan agreed to conditionally that the International Whaling Commission (IWC) reinstates its original task of whale resource management. Japan still intends to continue to kill 50 endangered Fin whales and 935 piked (minke) whales this season.

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