The leaflet 'Small cetacean hunting on the coast of Japan' distributed at IWC meeting had few mistakes.
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We never forget you
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IKAN's Message for a website "sha-chi.jp"
which was established to remember the Taiji5 by Japanese citizens
Every year, when I feel the warm sunlight briefly on my skin during a chilly windy day, I remember about the incident at the beach that took place ten years ago.
What my eye were watching seemed too surreal like an excerpt from a movie, but the sound of the baby orca crying struck me as a painful reality, and I was helpless.
"I will return you to the sea..."
Only after four months I made the promise, the little baby orca quietly passed away in an aquarium tank. At the same time, the baby orca's heart-breaking calls touched many people
Seibu Group's Prince Hotel Wants to Have Dolphin Shows
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"AquaStadium" will open in part of the Shinagawa Prince Hotel (Takanawa, Minato District, Tokyo) in front of Shinagawa train station on April 8th. The facility is aimed as an "entertainment space for adults," including a large dolphin pool with 1300 seats and a restaurant.
The "AquaStadium" is currently under construction at Shinagawa Prince Hotel, which upon completion will be 6900 square meters, consisting of a combination of different facilities including an indoor jet coaster and other four attractions, and a live hall with the capacity of 1900 people.
The theme of this project is "healing adults," focusing its customers on office workers and couples, by opening until late at night both during weekdays and weekends, and by having services such as a restaurant with small aquariums with tropical fish and cafes with original sweets menus.
Ten Years after Taiji Orca Capture
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Ten years have past since five orcas were captured in Taiji.
The background to the incident was reported by IKAN (Sorry it was written in Japanese languege only).
Shortly after the capture, in June of the same year (1997), the youngest baby, and a female that had been assumed to be pregnant, died one after another in an aquarium called the Adventure World .
*Three out of the five captured orcas have already died*
Furthermore, a male (called "Q-chan") that had also been sent to the Adventure World died two years ago (2005), leaving only two out of the five orcas.
One of the two survivors, "Coo", owned by the Taiji Whale Museum has been lent to the Nagoya Public Aquarium under a five-year contract. The other one, a female named "Asuka", was transported to the Mito Sea Paradise in Izu as a companion to "Yamato", a male orca from Iceland , but she was left alone when Yamato died in 2000.
Russian capture of orca whale slammed in San Francisco
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An international meeting in San Francisco today slammed Russia for capturing an orca whale and killing another in defiance of the International Whaling Commission and in the face of world opinion. The Sunny Summit brought together 45 activists from 10 countries representing millions opposed to the exploitation of whales and dolphins in captive settings. A strongly worded resolution condemning the September 26th orca capture and death in Russia's far eastern Kamchatka waters was passed unanimously.
