Welcome to IKAN

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We are a citizens' network of people working towards coexisting with wildlife including dolphins and whales on Japan's coasts.
We call for proper and just conservation management in Japan, where regulations tend to favor the whaling and dolphin hunting industry.
We are also exploring ways to obtain information with increased transparency, and to involve more people.

Please join and support us.

 

Disaster Recovery Funds Used to Cover the Research Whaling Debts Must Be Returned

Joint Statement
Disaster Recovery Funds Used to Cover the Research Whaling Debts Must Be Returned 

Tokyo, November 13, 2013 – On October 5th 2012, Greenpeace Japan and the Dolphin & Whale Action Network (IKAN) called on the Board of Audit of Japan to conduct an urgent and independent investigation into the details of the misuse of 2.28 billion yen in tsunami recovery funds under the project called “Cetacean Research Stabilization Promotion,” as well as to call for returning the funds that did not meet the initial objectives of supporting Ishinomaki City in Miyagi Prefecture (1). We also urged the board to review the injection of government subsidies into whaling operations pointing out that the Institute of Cetacean Research has excessive debts (2).

On October 31st, the Board of Audit of Japan released a report on the findings from their earlier investigation, stating that the Cetacean Research Stabilization Promotion Project “cannot be accepted as a direct benefit to the recovery efforts and is a questionable expense spent from the disaster funds (3).”

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23.7 gram!?

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People know that Japan is a country that eats whale meat, but Japanese people may not have much of an appetite for it after all.
The amount an average Japanese person eats in one year is a mere 23.7g – that is virtually the same weight
as half a chocolate bar or a slice of ham.
Hard to believe?

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