The Cove

[mknighton05 at ybb.ne.jp]

Surely the current hue and cry internationally as well as
domestically around the Kiwi case is not unrelated to the
anti-Cove momentum. The Sea Shepherd's Bethune is on trial
for attempting a citizen's arrest of a Japanese whaling
vessel's captain, and could get --what was it I heard on
the radio? --15 years in prison? Environmental "terrorism"
by the Sea Shepherd crew has also been alleged.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8600458.stm

mary knighton

--- Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:

> The Asahi reports this morning that one of the
> theaters scheduled to  
> show the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove has
> broken under pressure  
> from right-wing organizations and decided not to
> show the film. The  
> right-wingers, who had threatened to begin protests
> on the 4th in  
> front of the theater, had already performed loud
> protests in front of  
> the distributor in April, charging those associated
> with the film with  
> being "anti-Japanese" and "terrorists destroying the
> Japanese spirit."  
> Theater N in Shibuya, which is owned by the
> publishing distributor  
> Nippan, decided not to show the film because for
> fear something might  
> happen to one of the customers or someone in the
> building. Cinemart  
> Roppongi, the other theater scheduled to show the
> film, is considering  
> whether to go on with the screening.
> 
>
http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/dolphin-hunt-film-canceled-in-tokyo-after-protests
> 
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