Blue Technology

Greenpeace: Defending our oceans

• Unjust sentence for Tokyo Two September 6, 2010
  Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, known as the Tokyo Two, exposed widespread corruption in Japan's whaling programme – in return, they have been handed a one year suspended prison sentence. However, despite the harsh punishment the two anti-whaling activists stood in court as heroes today, having successfully put whaling on trial, both in court, and in Japa […]
• Key facts heard in the trial of Junichi Sato & Toru Suzuki September 6, 2010
  At a press conference on 15 May 2008, Sato showed journalists a box of ‘personal luggage’,labeled as ‘cardboard’, sent by a crewmember of the Nisshin Maru factory ship to his home. Itcontained 23.5kg of salted unesu whale meat, worth an estimated US $1000 - $3000.Kyodo Senpaku (KS), the company which operates Japan’s whaling fleet, subsequently claimedit leg […]
• Tokyo Two - statement of concern September 5, 2010
  This is a joint statement of concern by International Non-Governmental Organisations, urging the Japanese government, as well as governments around the world to ensure that Greenpeace activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki are not unjustly and disproportionately punished for their peaceful, public-interest expose of corruption in the Japanese whaling program […]
• Tokyo Two: Online March for Justice August 21, 2010
  Greenpeace anti-whaling activists Toru Suzuki and Junichi Sato (the "Tokyo Two") have been facing trial for nearly two years in Japan and now a verdict will be announced on Monday September 6th . In 2008, Junichi and Toru exposed a scandal involving government corruption entrenched within the tax-payer funded Japanese whaling industry. They are on […]
• Defending the last ocean August 5, 2010
  This is the story of how our fishermen, having taken so many fish from the seas closer to home, are now venturing to the ends of the Earth in order to maintain our insatiable appetite for seafood. This is also the story of how a group of Antarctic scientists, environmentalists, retailers, and chefs are working together to support the protection of the Antarc […]
• Can Japan save the world’s most valuable fish? July 21, 2010
  TOKYO: Japan is celebrating “Marine Season” (“Umi-No-Shun-Kan”) this week and it’s also the International Year of Biodiversity. What better way to mark the occasion here than to launch a campaign to protect the most threatened fish species? That’s exactly what Greenpeace Japan is doing by releasing a seafood ranking guide. The first of its kind, it includes […]
• Whaling talks fail June 23, 2010
  In response to discussions taking place today at International Whaling Commission meeting in Morocco that signal that there will be no deal, Greenpeace Japan Programme Director Junichi Sato issued the following statement: […]
• Why Greenpeace won’t compromise on commercial whaling. June 21, 2010
  As the International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual meeting begins in Morocco, there has been a flurry of media coverage over a possible ‘deal’ or ‘compromise’. Often the details, and sometimes the central points, can get lost as things are translated, edited, reworked and re-edited for the media, so we wanted to take the opportunity here to spell out just […]
• Activism is not a crime June 21, 2010
  Non-governmental organisations and their activists play an active and essential role in representative democracies. Like journalists and other watchdogs of society, they are part of the vanguard against tyranny and their service to the political system, while often inconvenient to politicians, should not be underestimated. However, there is an increasing and […]
• Arctic Under Pressure Expedition June 18, 2010
  Arctic Under Pressure Expedition. […]