The Big Taiji List: #SHUTDOWNTAIJIIN2013

Take action for Taiji Dolphins.

Contact U.S.A. Congress, tell them what is going on with the Taiji Dolphin Slaughters and tell them it's time for them to lend their voices to stop it.

Thank you.

Find your United States Senators here:

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Find your United States House of Representatives here:

http://www.house.gov/

http://thetaijilist.blogspot.com/2013/07/shutdowntaijiin2013.html

SAVE JAPAN DOLPHINS
http://savejapandolphins.org/
http://savejapandolphins.org/blog/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Japan-Dolphins/130698636967311

TAIJI DOLPHIN DRIVE HUNT SEASON 2013~2014 QUOTA

Thank you Olaf Janssen and Save Misty the Dolphin

CONTACT THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN
Thank you Olaf Janssen

WEBSITES OF JAPANESE EMBASSIES, CONSULATES AND PERMANENT MISSIONS.
http://www.mofa.go.jp/about/emb_cons/mofaserv.html

CONTACT ~ MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT
https://www.env.go.jp/en/moemail/

CONTACT ~ TOKYO METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT
http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/SUB/contact.htm

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries
https://www.contact.maff.go.jp/maff/form/114e.html

Please write your comment on the Administration of Japan
https://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/forms/comment_ssl.html

THE PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN
Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, Prime Minister of Japan:
Fax: +81-3-3581-3883
E-mail: http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/forms/comment.html

MR. KAZUTAKA SANGEN,
TAIJI TOWN MAYOR
Fax: +81-735-59-2801
E-mail: http://www.town.taiji.wakayama.jp/

SECRETARIAT OF TAIJI TOWN ASSEMBLY
Fax: +81-735-59-2884

TAIJI FISHERY COOPERATIVE

Fax: +81-735-59-2821

Embassy of Japan in Washinton D.C.
Ambassador Ryozo Kato
2520 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington D.C. 20008-2869
Tel: (202) 238-6700,
Fax: 202-328-2187
Hours: M-F 9:15-12:30 and 2:00-6:16
E-mail: mailto:jicc@embjapan.org
http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp

Fisheries Agency of Japan
Mr. Yoshio Kobayashi, Director-General of Japan Fisheries Agency:
Fax: +81-3-3502-1682

Mr. Jun Yamashita, Head of Whaling Section of Japan at Far Seas Fisheries Division in Japan Fisheries Agency
Fax: +81-3-3591-5824
E-mail: mailto:whaling-section@nm.maff.go.jp

The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan
Mr. Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Fax: +81-3-3580-5556

The Ministry of the Environment
Ms. Masatoshi Wakabayashi, Minister of the Environment
Fax: +81-3-3581-3003
E-mail: mailto:MOE@env.go.jp

Wakayama Prefecture:
Local Government, Wakayama/Taiji

Mr. Yoshiki Kimura, Governor of Wakayama
Fax: +81-73-441-2020
E-mail: http://www.pref.wakayama.lg.jp/secure/teigen/teigen.html
or mailto:webmaster@pref.wakayama.lg.jp

Nourinsuisanbu Suisankyoku Shigenkanrika
(Resources Management Section at the Fisheries Section, Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Wakayama Prefecture)
Fax: +81-73-432-4124
E-mail: mailto: e0715001@pref.wakayama.lg.jp

Facts About the Drive Hunt:
Death or Imprisonment for Life
Shared by Olaf Janssen
The dolphin drive hunts in Taiji do not just end in the killing of the dolphins. Taiji is “ground zero” for international trade in live dolphins. There is money – big money – in the captive dolphin entertainment industry. Without the money the FU makes from the live trade business, it is doubtful that the Taiji FU would be able to sustain the killing of dolphins. The operation is expensive.

We understand that the FU makes about $32,000 USD for each live dolphin it captures. Trained dolphins sell for much, much more. There is a direct link between the captive dolphin entertainment industry and the bloody waters of the Cove in Taiji. Supporting a live dolphin show or participating in a confined swim-with-dolphin program anywhere in the world is the same as slicing open a dolphin in Taiji. The dolphin entertainment industry drives the hunt. The killing of the dolphins follows in its wake. Well-intentioned marine mammal trainers and the dolphin-show-viewing public all have the blood of innocent dolphins on their hands.

For the dolphins pulled from their families and sold into captivity, life is beyond horrible. Even those dolphins born in captivity exist in prison-like conditions. It is now illegal in the United States to import a dolphin which has been caught in the wild, so there is a big business in captive-bred dolphins. One wonders though how many of the so-called captive bred dolphins imported into the US each year are actually wild-caught. Even the captive-bred dolphins most likely have ancestors who were captured in Taiji. The link to the killing in Taiji is undeniable, and unavoidable.

Taiji is located in a protected nook off of a bay. The rocky land soars up from the water along the coast there. The water in the bay is shallow and there are many rock spurs and islets. Near the entrance to Taiji harbor is the entrance to the infamous Cove. The rock spurs, islets, and shallows create a natural funnel right into the entrance of the Cove.

There are a dozen small fishing boats in Taiji equipped with metal poles on their sides. These boats go out into the ocean off the Wakayama coast each morning at first light. They fan out and start patrolling in the known dolphin migratory routes looking for pods of dolphins or small whales. They often go over the horizon. They also look for seabirds because the birds will follow the dolphins looking for an easy meal from the fish the dolphins chase. Once a hunting boat finds a pod, the operator will radio to the other boats. While the others are racing to that location, the first boat will follow the pod. Once there are five or more hunting boats on the scene, they will herd the dolphins using their boats and by banging with a hammer on a flange on top of the poles. We call them “banger boats” because of these poles. This banging creates a wall of sound from which the dolphins and small whales swim away. This is the “drive hunt.” The banger boats next drive the pod into the bay, along the coast past the entrance to Taiji harbor and then into the entrance to the Cove. Once the dolphins are past the entrance, other dolphin hunters close off the entrance with nets.

NO BOYCOTT JAPAN!!!
Taiji is not all of Japan.
Not all Japanese folks are even AWARE of Taiji dolphin hunting, nor are they themselves the hunters, nor would they condone this if they DID know.
We cannot afford to demonize the Japanese activists who will help to end the Taiji dolphin massacres by referring to them in terms of racist naming and slurs. We need to show them support and the same applied to all of the Cove Guardians who are there to witness.
Anything less will ENDANGER their safety, and then WHO will end this hell for Taiji dolphins?

YOU CAN'T BOYCOTT A COUNTRY AND A PEOPLE OF THAT COUNTRY!

The following does represent my personal point of view concerning ending the Taiji cetacean hunts by peaceful means. Please place your support and your praise with Save Japan Dolphins and Sea Shepherd. These powerful advocacy groups do not condone violence or racial hatred.

The Weight of a Snowflake

"Tell me the weight of a snowflake," a coalmouse asked a wild dove.

"Nothing more than nothing," the dove answered.

"In that case I must tell you a marvelous story," the coalmouse said. "I sat on a fir branch close to the trunk when it began to snow. Not heavily, not in a raging blizzard. No, just like in a dream, without any violence at all. Since I didn't have anything better to do, I counted the snowflakes settling on the twigs and needles of my branch. Their number was exactly 3,471,952. When the next snowflake dropped onto the branch--nothing more than nothing -- as you say -- the branch broke off."

Having said that, the coalmouse ran away.

The dove, since Noah's time an authority on peace, thought about the story for a while. Finally, she said to herself, "Perhaps there is only one person's voice lacking for peace to come to the world."
- Source unknown
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February 11, 2013
Why I do not support a boycott of Japan
Taiji Dolphin Slaughter
by Sandy McElhaney
http://www.examiner.com/article/why-i-do-not-support-a-boycott-of-japan

Dolphin Activist Ric O’Barry: Boycotting Japan Is ‘Racist’
‘Cove’ star sounds off on the Solomon Islands slaughter, a Spanish dolphin named Marcos, rereleasing wild-caught orcas—and more.
http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/12/10/dolphin-activist-ric-obarry-boycotting-japan-racist#.UNzBQg70Fd8.twitter

Why Boycotting Japan is a Bad Idea
An article by Ric O'Barry
http://dolphinproject.org/blog/post/save-the-dolphins-boycott-japan

Regarding a boycott on Japan....
An article by Lotus
http://ourgreenandblueplanet.blogspot.ca/2012/09/regarding-boycott-on-japan.html

Taiji and dolphins: would boycotting Japan solve anything?
An article by Charlie Moores
http://www.talking-naturally.co.uk/taiji-dolphins-boycotting-japan-solve-anything/

Eloquent, Intelligent, Spot On!
Article explaining the effectiveness of the peaceful activist solution for Taiji dolphin hunt
http://www.theinkednaturalist.co.uk/japan-love-your-dolphins/

MANY THANKS TO CALL OF THE COVE FOR PETITIONS. PLEASE VISIT http://callofthecove.wordpress.com
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

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