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Japanese mayor defends dolphin hunts

August 26, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

TAIJI, Japan (AP) — As children in inner tubes bob on the calm waters of this small ocean cove, a 550-pound dolphin zips through the crowd in pursuit of raw squid tossed out by a trainer.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Councilman Hisato Ryono, Hayato Sakurai, Katsutoshi Mihara, Louie Psihoyos, Mayor Kazutaka Sangen, Mayor Sangen, TAIJI, Tokyo, Vol 29 No 35 | August 28 - September 3, attention, japan, whaling

Japan defends dolphin hunt in Oscar-winning ‘Cove’

March 10, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“The Cove” is a recent Academy Award winner for Best Feature Documentary. The film describes the annual killing of dolphins in a National Park at Taiji, Wakayama, in Japan from an anti-dolphin hunting campaigner’s point of view.

TAIJI, Japan (AP) — The Japanese fishing village featured in “The Cove,” which won an Oscar for best documentary, defended its practice of hunting dolphins on March 8 as a part of a long tradition.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Academy Awards, Associated Press, Best Feature Documentary, Foreign Ministry, Hisato Ryono, Los Angeles, TAIJI, Takeshi Kato, Tetsuya Endo, Tokyo, Vol 29 No 11 | March 13 - March 19, Whale Town, Yuri Kageyama, Yutaka Aoki, japan, letter

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