Japanese Official Admits Using Foreign Aid to Buy Pro-Whaling Votes

by Sheldon Rampton — July 18, 2001 - 12:00am
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The head of Japan's fisheries agency admitted that his country uses foreign aid to pressure other countries into voting against restrictions on its whaling activities. Masayuki Komatsu added that there is "nothing wrong" with killing whales, comparing them to "cockroaches" and saying, "There are too many." We reported on the PR firms that help greenwash Japanese whaling in the 1st Quarter 2001 issue of PR Watch.

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Associated Press, July 18, 2001