Protesters held on Japanese whaling ship

But hunting whales also provides Mr Inwood with his own bread and butter.

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The New Zealand Herald reported in 2006 that he has worked as a consultant for Te Ohu Kaimoana, an organisation devoted to advancing Maori fishing interests. It is also reportedly the sole voting shareholder in Aotearoa Fisheries, which in turn owns half of the major New Zealand seafood company Sealord. The other half is owned by a Japanese company, Nissui, which is also a shareholder in Japan's whaling fleet.

An experienced public relations agent, Michael Smith, whose former company took on a contract for Japanese whalers nine years ago, likened Mr Inwood's role to "representing seal clubbers".

Mr Smith's firm, Shandwick International, ran into trouble running a campaign on behalf of the Japanese Whaling Association. The company also had a contract with the International Fund for Animal Welfare to run a campaign in Britain against fox hunting - a deal which Shandwick lost when its whaling work became known to the animal-welfare activists.

In retrospect, it had probably been a mistake to take the brief, Mr Smith said. "It was just a case of the Japanese were sick of coming to Australia and getting ambushed everywhere, they wanted to get their own story out."

Mr Smith, who is not pro-whaling, said Mr Inwood would continue to face an uphill battle to sell his message, but that it would be unlikely to affect the whales themselves.

"I don't think the Japanese really care that much about public opinion in Australia."

Bob Burton, author of Inside Spin and an observer of the whaling industry's twists and turns, said Mr Inwood was a valuable asset for the Institution of Cetacean Research but the public relations battle could not be won.
"It's a bit like the asbestos industry - they are defending the indefensible, and the strategy is to keep on stalling. In the long term, though, it's hard to see anything other than the strategy unravelling."

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Half-n-Half said:

http://rokdrop.com/2008/01/16/japanese-whaling-update/

It's very one-sided, but also a very interesting read IMHO.

After you read this article you might think I am pro-whaling. This is not true, however. I am simply anti-Sea Shepherd.

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caster51 said:

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/rss/nn20080119a7.html

they are like fly

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Chi65 said:

The good thing of this forum is, one can get the informations from different sides, from all over the world, which makes it much more easy to compare and find out, what is nothing but PR and whats not.

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What is the true purpose of SeaShepherd's activity? SeaShepherd is always conscious of their image on camera. SeaShepherd never play an active role without camera sneakingly. The true purpose of SeaShepherd's antiwhaling activity is, by showing their battle for life against Japanese whaling research ships to the world, to collect contributions from the world. SeaShepherd is no longer environmental organization. SeaShepherd is just "Money-mad" to obtain money from the world by tricks.
SeaShepherd's propaganda for antiwhaling has been appealing focused on barbarousness of Japanese whaling to viewer's emotions with videos repeatedly and sneakingly even though farmanimal's slaughterhouse is as brutal as whaling. As a result, anti-whalers have strong hatred for not only Japanese whaling but also Japanese people even though they can eat meat without hesitation because they don't know the reality of farmanimal's slaughterhouse. Australians must watch them!
Australians enjoy watching SeaShepherd's antiwhaling activity wages a fearlessly courageous battle against Japanese whaling research ships on TV for entertainment. Videos of SeaShepherd's antiwhaling activity seems that "white-hat" SeaShepherd's warriors fight a battle against "black hat" Japanese research ship. This is SeaShepherd just set Japan up as "the villain" like Hollywood action movie. Kevin Rudd who is famous for "Earwax Eater" noted the fact and used for political purposes.
The backroom fixer of Anti-whaling movement is International meat-industry organization (America and Australia). SeaShepherd has been getting vast contribution of money from International meat-industry organization and has been promoting unnecessary Anti-whaling movement. SeaShepherd' is not environmental group but TERRORISTS. SeaShepherd' has become just "Money-mad" that we Japanese should hate. SeaShepherd has been arousing strong hatred against Japanese people!
Ecologic Terrorists. "TERRORISTS" posing as a environmental group is SeaShepherd...this is the common perception of the world. We Japanese have strong resentment against SeaShepherd who has been taking destructive activities by brute force sneakingly and repeatedly. We Japanese who have made a declaration of fighting against "TERRORISM" never forgive SeaShepherd up to eradicate members of SeaShepherd.
Now, Australia is genuine terrorism-supporting state. Australia stands up for SeaShepherd who violates International Law of the Sea and takes destructive activities in name of antiwhaling. Australia encourages SeaShepherd's destructive activities, SeaShepherd is well-known for "Ecologic terrorists" not only in Japan but also rest of the world. We Japanese never forgive Australia.

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caster51 said:

I don't leave here terrorist said ﾂ。ﾂ。窶嗅窶嗜窶嗅


Australian media and gervenment faked ...?

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