Comments on: Funding Cuts May Sink Japanese Whaling Industry

By: Jim Stacey

Jim Stacey — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:13:38 +0000

During WWII the Japanese took a beating because they didn’t recognize other countries borders and set out to take there natural resources. My dad fought in 13 battles in the Pacific he was in the Navy served in a UDT unit. He never talked about the war only said don’t trust the Japanese their a bunch of liars.

By: Joseph Gluckstern

Joseph Gluckstern — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:02:33 +0000

Hurray for Admiral Watson and the rest of his Navy. I salute you for your efforts and support you financial and morally, but I feel once they deal with the JAPS, they need to also go after the other countries that do this as well. I believe Norwegian and Scandinavian! They must be treated with the same contempt and discussed they treated the JAPS with.

By: Sea Shepherd Estimate $70M Lost For Japanese Whaling Fleet In Latest Campaign « ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:00:14 +0000

[...] the industry already dependent on the Japanese government for tax breaks and cash, Paul Watson’s goal of defeating whaling with diminishing profits appears one step [...]

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:28:34 +0000

I so agree with everything you said. When I saw all of this on the news today, I jumped out of bed and started celebrating, after I heard there were no deaths. The day we stop the Japanese from their illegal harvest will be a joyful one indeed! Where I live on the West Coast of the U.S. they are constantly illegally fishing in American waters. They get warned and shooed away to just turn around and illegally enter our waters again. They are doing this with their whale hunting in Australian waters as well. They have no respect for the laws and boundaries of other countries. We need to start shooting them on site when found illegally fishing in other nations waters.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:53:44 +0000

I think your figures need checking, but you are right on a point, and that is the subsidies to the ICR are small relative to usual government spending. However, a lot of the money going to overseas countries is to support vote buying at the IWC. With vote buying included, some estimates have put whaling subsidies into the trillions of Yen, which is no small amount.

By: ddpalmer

ddpalmer — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:08:16 +0000

Last year the OFCF budget was over $14 billion. So aid to the ICR was less than 0.1% of their budget. And as the name implies most of their budget goes to aid overseas, like Africa and South America. So where do you think the first cuts would come from, farm projects in Africa or a very small subsidy to Japanese whalers? In hard economic times governments cut foriegn aid before domestic, because foriegn countries can’t vote for them and native citizens can.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:56:12 +0000

Destroying the whaling industry! Sick assholes! But what will happen to so many of the Caribbean islands who are payed of by the Japanese whaling industry?

By: Whale Wars Commence: Japanese Whaling Fleet Leaves Port « ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:54:24 +0000

[...] reason to hope that the 2009/2010 whaling season may be the last from Japan. As we reported last week, the new Japanese government is looking to cut programs that are bloated and a waste of taxpayer [...]

By: Jorge

Jorge — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:03:06 +0000

What gives you that impression?

That said, a lot of people do support the whalers on a nationalistic level. The industry plays up to this, saying international criticism is about cultural ignorance rather than environmental concern.

There is a bit of support for conservation, but most people in Japan don’t really know or pay that much attention to the whaling issue.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:01:45 +0000

You act as if the Japanese people support the whalers. It’s pretty clear that they don’t.