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May 16, 2008

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Dear Friends

We just released the results of a four-month undercover investigation, and

at this moment it's growing into the biggest scandal to ever hit the whaling

industry in Japan. It's on the front page of one of Japan's most influential

newspapers today. All six Japanese television stations attended our press

conference this morning. We're demanding that the government revoke the

permits of the whalers as a result of the scandal, and WE NEED YOUR HELP.

Please send <http://www.email.greenpeace.org/kvxilvbi_vmbvvtf.html> this

message to the Japanese government demanding a full investigation, an end to

government subsidies to the whaling program, and immediate revocation of the

whaling permits.

We presented evidence today in Tokyo of decades-old, widespread embezzlement

of whale meat occuring under the noses of the public officials who run the

whaling programme.

The best cuts of whale meat, used to make whale bacon, are smuggled into

crew cabins, preserved in salt, and then shipped home in boxes marked

" cardboard " or " salted stuff " to be sold on the black market. We intercepted

one such box -- worth up to US$3,000 -- and presented it to the Tokyo

Prosecutor's office as evidence this morning.

We have evidence that more than a ton of such whale meat was snuck from the

whaling ship this year. One of our informants claims to have heard a crew

member boast of building a house on the proceeds from his illegal take.

Now <http://www.email.greenpeace.org/rlrzelge_vmbvvtf.html> is the time to

rock the boat in Japan. The whaling programme has been an embarrassment to

Japan's Foreign Affairs department all year, as they dealt with pressure

from allies to stop the hunt of humpback whales. They cancelled the humpback

hunt -- surely on the back of this scandal, they must cancel the rest.

The Prime Minister himself got dragged in, claiming that:

?The research whaling which our country is doing is a lawful activity

carried out on the high seas under the International Convention for the

Regulation of Whaling.? --Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, 23 January 2008

When a Prime Minister has egg on his face like that, somebody's in trouble.

And the more trouble the unprofitable, sham-scientific, heavily subsidized

whaling programme is in, the more likely it will simply be shut down as more

trouble than it's worth.

Send <http://www.email.greenpeace.org/gpljsptz_vmbvvtf.html> a message to

the Prime Minister asking him to end whaling.

Best regards,

The whale meat scandal team

P.S. Our office and activists in Japan have never attained such media

prominence for the whale issue inside Japan --ever. Please help us to help

them by putting <http://www.email.greenpeace.org/mlxsiluk_vmbvvtf.html> the

pressure on their government.

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ACTION ALERT: Whaling Scandal

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Breaking news: stolen whale meat scandalSend Japan a message

Dear Friends

We just released the results of a four-month undercover investigation, and at this moment it's growing into the biggest scandal to ever hit the whaling industry in Japan. It's on the front page of one of Japan's most influential newspapers today. All six Japanese television stations attended our press conference this morning. We're demanding that the government revoke the permits of the whalers as a result of the scandal, and WE NEED YOUR HELP.

Please send this message to the Japanese government demanding a full investigation, an end to government subsidies to the whaling program, and immediate revocation of the whaling permits.

We presented evidence today in Tokyo of decades-old, widespread embezzlement of whale meat occuring under the noses of the public officials who run the whaling programme.

The best cuts of whale meat, used to make whale bacon, are smuggled into crew cabins, preserved in salt, and then shipped home in boxes marked "cardboard" or "salted stuff" to be sold on the black market. We intercepted one such box -- worth up to US$3,000 -- and presented it to the Tokyo Prosecutor's office as evidence this morning.

We have evidence that more than a ton of such whale meat was snuck from the whaling ship this year. One of our informants claims to have heard a crew member boast of building a house on the proceeds from his illegal take.

Now is the time to rock the boat in Japan. The whaling programme has been an embarrassment to Japan's Foreign Affairs department all year, as they dealt with pressure from allies to stop the hunt of humpback whales. They cancelled the humpback hunt -- surely on the back of this scandal, they must cancel the rest.

The Prime Minister himself got dragged in, claiming that:

?The research whaling which our country is doing is a lawful activity carried out on the high seas under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.? --Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, 23 January 2008

When a Prime Minister has egg on his face like that, somebody's in trouble. And the more trouble the unprofitable, sham-scientific, heavily subsidized whaling programme is in, the more likely it will simply be shut down as more trouble than it's worth.

Send a message to the Prime Minister asking him to end whaling.

Best regards,

The whale meat scandal team

P.S. Our office and activists in Japan have never attained such media prominence for the whale issue inside Japan --ever. Please help us to help them by putting the pressure on their government.P.P.S. Please send this message to a friend. Send the action alert to five friends. Ask them to send it to their friends. If you have a blog, please blog this story. This is the moment to put the pressure on hard.

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