Victor Montanyà ex creative at Tiempo BBDO,Barcelona (Spain)
Creative Director Fire Dept.

Do you have any links to studies that determine the Japanese whaling is actually driving these species into extinction? I’d like to include it in my next post about the whaling issue.

The Japanese argument? “Its in our culture.”

So is male chauvanism, but you’ve managed to try and do away with that.

There isn’t a culture on this Earth which hasn’t managed to overcome outdated or barbaric past times in favour of a more peaceful, collaborative future.

Japan continues to show its barbarism through whaling, and its hypocrisy through its attempts at telling the world how civilised they are. They show their stupidity in their resolute belief that we are so ignorant as to believe them.

I think China also should be on the target list, they are menace to the mother nature. I think without US, China, Japan, Britain, India, France & Russia, world would be better place. They should be called exis of devils.

This senseless hunting must be stop!

Again, Japan is trying to ignore rest of the world. It’s time to listen and straighten Japan’s dark past and join the real world.

Yeah! JAPAN PROBE isn’t a place for people who dislike Japan, it’s a for people who dislike Korea

Anyway, this discussion is effective to let Japan-haters appear to the surface and increase foreigner-haters in Japan, isn’t it?
There is a sentence in the essay ‘Idea of Individualism’ adopted in the textbook for junior high school written by Jun-ichiro Tanizaki, famous novelist in Japan.
“I try to like others. But after I knew those who I had liked disliked me, I try to dislike the person.”.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=11794

http://www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin

Anyway ponta, it is kind of funny when I scrolled down the comments and saw yours, my mind simply said, “Korean people also do it, talk about them instead”, and had to re-read the post. I agree though, if there is negative about a few countries, why not focus on other instead of Japan? People try to criticize Japan too much because they have a lot of money and because American car companies are getting destroyed by Japanese.

I’ve seen cows get killed for meat, and I don’t see how it is any worse than whaling and such, especially when cows are holy in India.

Might want to refrain from using threatening verbage. We get what you’re trying to say, just your words can be like a rose (trying to get your point with the scent yet showing your thorns to get your point across).

Sorry to go off on a tangent, but. . .
By the by, in your logic if Japan’s “cutting edge technology” accounts for “most of high tech weapons” do you mind explaining to me why Japan’s own defense force plans to purchase American Jets (http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/404612)? Not to mention most of Japan’s high end weapon systems come from America (everything from AEGIS to Hummers). I have my doubts that most of those “high tech weapons” were made with Japanese cutting edge technology. Because if they were; wouldn’t Japan be more than capable to make their own (in the first place)? And please save me the “Japan doesn’t have the capability to manufacture weapons.”

We were talking about the Kyoto treaty…what does anti-whaling have to do with it? How is that even relevant?

Given your mistake on the whale in New York story, I think you’ve lost all credibility. Get the facts straight before you come to a discussion. And when you come to the discussion, stay on topic.

I think killing humans (i.e IRAQ) is the real crime and W should be responsible.

I suggest you study the news reports on the whale in NY a few days ago. You’ll find that it was not “killed” by someone but wandered into the harbor and died.

By the way, a whale seemed to have been killed in NY a few days ago.
Why don’t you demonstrate?

You do not seem to know most of high tech weapons cannot made without Japanese cutting edge technology.

I know that very, very well. What from my comment suggests that I don’t know that? How is it relevant?

167 nations have signed the Kyoto treaty. It is named after the city where the meeting took place. It is a treaty under UN administration.

Besides, Japan is pretending that Gaiatsu is effective but not in reality.
You do not seem to know most of high tech weapons cannot made without Japanese cutting edge technology.
Therefore, even the USA would not like to have Japan for the enemy.
If you do not trust me, please try.

Ken (above)…you seem a bit confused about the Kyoto Protocol. It was initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme, not by the government of Japan. The name Kyoto comes from the city that the meeting was held at. This would be like saying George Bush is attacking the Swiss by ignoring the Geneva Conventions.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4123826.stm

Yon can find a related discussion here.
http://plungepontificates.blogspot.com/2006/01/whalingagaincouple-other-thoughts.html