Two Greenpeace members arrested

Police arrested two members of Greenpeace Japan on Friday on suspicion of stealing a box of whale meat in connection with the conservationist group's claim that crew members of a Japanese whaling ship had themselves stolen the meat.
Arrested on suspicion of theft and unlawful entry are Junichi Sato, 31, and Toru Suzuki, 41, police said. The two were transferred from Tokyo to Aomori Police Station in the afternoon.

The two are suspected of breaking into a branch office in Aomori of trucking firm Seino Transportation Co. between 8:40 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on April 16 and stealing a cardboard box containing whale meat.

Crew members of the whaling ship Nisshin Maru had used such boxes to ship home whale meat using Seino's door-to-door delivery service.

According to investigative sources, the two suspects admitted they removed the box from the office, but denied committing theft, saying they were collecting evidence that the crew itself had stolen the meat.

Yasuhi Tadano, a lawyer for Greenpeace, denounced the arrests.
"The arrests were unjust. The two had to resort to such means in order to get evidence of (pilfering)," Tadano told reporters.

In May, Greenpeace Japan filed a complaint with prosecutors against 12 crew members of the Nisshin Maru, alleging they stole a large amount of whale meat after returning home from a government-sponsored whale hunt in the Antarctic Ocean.
But prosecutors Friday said they will not charge the crew of the whaling ship after concluding that the whale meat was distributed as a gift by the operator of the ship.

Seino Holdings Co. said the two Greenpeace activists illegally broke into its warehouse and stole the container. The company said Friday it hadn't decided whether to demand redress from Greenpeace.

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[folker2006]

人の物を盗れば罪になるのは当然、子供でも分かる。

[miley1434]

Since it's usually Australians, Americans or British taking anti-whaling actions, not the Japanese themselves, the Japanese government wants to severely punish the Greenpeace activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, who actually are political prisoners, as a warning to citizens who question the country's controversial whaling policy.

[southpore1]

When are these greenpeace people gonna grow up?

[123w45678]

共産主義者？

[MrHideyuki624]

Ok pps japanese people do eat whales after being researched. And people like how it is being eaten. Well then, what if we threw it away and trashed the meat? Would these anti whalers be happy? First of all, go to google and search for the population of whales. Also, why do we have to eat under people's fucking orders?? It makes me maaad.

[DSD1v57BG32]

@JrockNerd

People do care about those countries at least the environmentalist do, but i do agree that the media doesn't pay much attention to them. seasheapards? well not alll the activists belong to that certain group.

Racists??????????????????

nothing is made up, where do you get your info from?

I do not get my info from the animal planet but marine biologists at my college.

I actually do give a shit bout every animal except. I hate anthropocentrism.

[JrockNerd]

The International whaling commission says Japan is not endangering whales. Animal planet admits, Legal experts say Japan is not doing anything illegal.

But you don't want to listen to that now do you? You prefer to think you have it right, even though you actually know nothing of this matter, other than your fed up propaganda.

Why don't you give a fuck about pigs being slaugthered in millions?

If anything you should whine about that shit. They are being raised solely to be food.

[JrockNerd]

You are making shit up, based on Eco-terrorist/propaganda-racis­ts and what they are saying.

[JrockNerd]

The reason nobody gives a fuck about other countries like, Russia for example, is that they carry real guns, they aren't quite as peaceful as Japan when it comes to people messing with their shit, they'd fucking shoot the seashepherd in the head and sink his little boat to the bottom of the ocean, and yet you think Japan who is actually not doing anything illegal is the huge problem here?