I translate a Japanese article mentioning about a suspicious incident of Sea Shepherd on the land in Japan.
Sea Shepherd, sent leaders into Taiji-Town, in Wakayama, Japan, where Sea Shepherd illegally spied the film, the Cove, in order to pressure on the local whaling villagers. The group intentionally targets on the town to show off their intentional effort toward their supporters and gain the public attention. They announced that they would send a ship, which probably is possible to be a battle ship, to interfere the Japanese Whaling research ship in this coming December 2010. They seem not to change their attitude after captured their former member by Japanese Whaling ship.
Web-video service, fund-raising.
Scott Wast, 52 yrs old, a former U.S environmental officer, who joined Sea Shepherd as a member 2 years ago, has been taking activities against the locals in Taiji-town, Wakayama. He has been purposefully staying around the ocean, Hatajiri-ocean, spying and uploading the videos continuously due to gain the public attention against whaling. He will stay there until the early days in December.
He is the 1st leader who has long stayed in Japan. The group declare that they conspire to send other members after his leaving from Japan for their spying.
Sankei-newspaper expects that the group holds the much amount of donations from their supporters as their background of activities. The group approached the 1st spying in 2003, started obstructing the local whaling in 2005, start broadcasting their own programs, Whale war, to make the viewer call themselves ocean heroes in 2007.
The TV program, Whale War, became the 2nd most popular TV show in their channel. That cause themselves so popular in the U.S and Australia, raising their funds as the coincidence. Compared with their prior fund $120 M dollar in 2004, they gained $396 million dollar, as 3 times as one in 2004, in 2008. In addition, the other TV commentators donate other millions dollars to the group in 2009. They possibly has over 1,000 million dollar of their total funds.
One of the whalers explained, "The group considers Japan as the goldmine of their business-model of taking advantages of us by interfering Japanese Whaling in improper manors."
On the other hand, a member of another eco-terrorist group, the Black Fish, who was a former member of Sea Shepherd, came out of cutting the net of the local whaling. The Black Fish purposed to stop the local whaling of selling the whales for showing off at a aquarium.
Sankei suggests that the eco-terrorists based on barbaric eco-terrorist group Sea Shepherd, started targeting on Japan as their goldmine of donation. Scott Wast said about intentionally invasion in Japan as an eco-environmentalist, "If the sea creatures extincted, the earth would also be dead. Japan keeps committing the crime of murdering them. It also damages on the earth. We fight against Japan."
Here is the end of the article. Scot mentions Japan commits the crime, but they follow the rule of IWC. If Australia hate to see Japanese whale researching ship, they should submit any comment toward IWC as an official way and in a proper manor. Australia also appreciates the group which commits the crime and hurts another nations. I should Japan can get raged against this criminal group with delusional purpose and name them as a terrorist. Probably, the country point out Australia as a country helping their activities of piracy.
Japan is surrounded by helplessly dangerous countries because the country intends not to have any military weapon for a key of negotiation with other countries, even if others exactly do. It's the time for Japan to be armed to defend their nations from endangers and terrorists.
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