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Demonstration In Support Of Paul Watson - Paris

Greenpeace France's General Manager Jean-François Julliard delivers a speech during a demonstration in support of the NGO Sea Shepherd Canadian Founder Paul Watson in Paris on September 4, 2024. US-Canadian Paul Watson, 73, was arrested on July 21, 2024 in Greenland under an Interpol “red notice” issued by Japan. A court hearing on his continued detention was due on September 4, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration In Support Of Paul Watson - Paris

Greenpeace France's General Manager Jean-François Julliard delivers a speech during a demonstration in support of the NGO Sea Shepherd Canadian Founder Paul Watson in Paris on September 4, 2024. US-Canadian Paul Watson, 73, was arrested on July 21, 2024 in Greenland under an Interpol “red notice” issued by Japan. A court hearing on his continued detention was due on September 4, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Demonstration In Support Of Paul Watson - Paris

Greenpeace France's General Manager Jean-François Julliard delivers a speech during a demonstration in support of the NGO Sea Shepherd Canadian Founder Paul Watson in Paris on September 4, 2024. US-Canadian Paul Watson, 73, was arrested on July 21, 2024 in Greenland under an Interpol “red notice” issued by Japan. A court hearing on his continued detention was due on September 4, 2024. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japan's dumping of nuke wastewater draws ire from int'l community

STORY: Japan's dumping of nuke wastewater draws ire from int'l community DATELINE: Aug. 24, 2023 LENGTH: 00:04:42 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant 2. various of protesters 3. STANDUP 1 (English): ZHANG LI, Xinhua correspondent 4. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ZAFAR ULLAH KORESHI, Dean of Graduate Studies, Air University, Pakistan 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): LEONARD SIMANJUNTAK, Country Director of Greenpeace Indonesia 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): Prof. TIMOTHY MOUSSEAU, Department of Biological Sciences at University of South Carolina 7. SOUNDBITE 4 (Japanese): MIZUHO FUKUSHIMA, Head of Social Democratic Party "Radioactive materials, once discharged, cannot be retrieved, so they must be intensively managed. Such materials would be beyond management if they are discharged into the ocean. We can't allow such a thing to happen." 8. SOUNDBITE 5 (Korean): KIM YOUNG-CHUL, Executive Chief, Federation of Korean Fishermen's Associations 9. SOUNDBITE 6

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Japan's nuclear-contaminated water discharge "disastrous": Greenpeace Indonesia

STORY: Japan's nuclear-contaminated water discharge "disastrous": Greenpeace Indonesia DATELINE: July 15, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:20 LOCATION: Jakarta CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Fukushima nuclear plant 2. various of demonstrations against Japan's dumping nuclear-contaminated water 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): LEONARD SIMANJUNTAK, Country director of Greenpeace Indonesia 4. various of Indonesian fishermen 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): LEONARD SIMANJUNTAK, Country director of Greenpeace Indonesia 6. various of the G7 summit 7. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): LEONARD SIMANJUNTAK, Country director of Greenpeace Indonesia STORYLINE: Japan's discharge plan of nuclear-contaminated water has drawn wide condemnations, with the country director of Greenpeace Indonesia adding his call for its cancellation. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): LEONARD SIMANJUNTAK, Country director of Greenpeace Indonesia "Our demand is to outrightly call for the cancellation of this plan, and there are other methods. If this practice is to be al

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Japan's plan to dump nuke-contaminated water into sea sparks huge outcry worldwide

STORY: Japan's plan to dump nuke-contaminated water into sea sparks huge outcry worldwide DATELINE: June 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:20 LOCATION: Tokyo/Seoul CATEGORY: POLITICS/ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of protesters in Japan and South Korea 2. various of the protest in Fukushima Prefectural, Japan, on June 20, 2023 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): CHIYO ODA, Organizer of the event 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): MASUKO EIICHI, Fukushima Prefecture resident 5. various of the protest in Seoul, South Korea, on June 12, 2023 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Korean): KIM KWANG-SHIK, South Korean protester 7. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): TIMOTHY MOUSSEAU, Professor of biological sciences at University of South Carolina 8. SOUNDBITE 5 (English): SHAUN BURNIE, Senior nuclear specialist at Greenpeace East Asia STORYLINE: Despite ongoing opposition from both home and abroad, Japan has been rushing to carry out its plan of dumping radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, raising growin

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Discharge of tritium from Fukushima to harm human body: scientists

STORY: Discharge of tritium from Fukushima to harm human body: scientists DATELINE: April 28, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:37 LOCATION: Seoul CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the press conference in Seoul 2. various of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): TIMOTHY MOUSSEAU, Professor of biological sciences at University of South Carolina 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): SHAUN BURNIE, Senior nuclear specialist at Greenpeace East Asia STORYLINE: Multiple scientists have voiced concern that the discharge of tritium from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will severely harm human bodies. At a press conference in Seoul, Timothy Mousseau, a professor at the University of South Carolina, said that consistent ingestion of tritiated water discharged from the Fukushima plant can lead to cell and tissue damage of the human body. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): TIMOTHY MOUSSEAU, Professor of biological sciences at University of South Carolina "When tritium gets inside the body, it's a

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TEPCO shareholders' meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Members of environmentalist group Greenpeace hold a banner criticizing Tokyo Electric Power Co. in front of a Tokyo hotel (back) where a TEPCO shareholders' meeting was held on June 28, 2011. The company is under fire over the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi complex.

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Greenpeace activists arrested over whale meat theft

TOKYO, Japan - Jun Hoshikawa, executive director of Greenpeace Japan, speaks to reporters in front of Greenpeace's office in Tokyo on June 20 after police arrested two Greenpeace members on suspicion of stealing whale meat. The group presented the meat to prosecutors as evidence in its allegations of a whale meat smuggling operation involving a government-sponsored whaling program.

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Police arrest 2 Greenpeace members over whale meat theft

TOKYO, Japan - Investigators enter the office of Greenpeace Japan in Tokyo on June 20 to conduct a search. Two group members were arrested the same day 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 stolen the meat.

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Anti-whaling group sends valentine to Japan

SYDNEY, Australia - Environmental activists at Greenpeace demonstrate their opposition to whaling outside the Japanese Consulate General in Sydney on Feb. 14. They later delivered a giant Valentine's Day card decorated 945 origami whales to the consulate general.

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Greenpeace members rally in Tokyo for Tasmanian forest protection

TOKYO, Japan - Greenpeace activists stage a protest rally in front of the headquarters of Nippon Paper Industries Co. in Tokyo's Yurakucho on Sept. 2, urging the company to stop importing wood chips from Tasmania where virgin forests are cut down to make such chips.

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(3)IWC opens meeting, pro-whaling side may gain power

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Members of Greenpeace hold up signs, which accuse Japan of attempting to secure support for the resumption of commercial whaling by using official development assistance, at the entrance of Kaikyo Messe Shimonoseki, the venue of the annual plenary meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), in Yamaguchi Prefecture on May 20.

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Masashi Kimura, director general of Greenpeace Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Masashi Kimura, who became director general of Greenpeace Japan on Jan. 1, 2002.

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Greenpeace protests whaling outside Japanese Embassy

WASHINGTON, United States - Twenty Greenpeace members gather outside the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Nov. 5 to protest a Japanese whaling fleet due to leave Nov. 6 for a six-month Antarctic voyage expected to catch 440 minke whales. The protesters include five wearing ''giant eyeballs'' meant to symbolize the world is watching Japan.

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Greenpeace projects antidioxin messages on Tokyo waste plant

TOKYO, Japan - The environmentalist group Greenpeace Japan on May 22 uses a projector to display protest messages on the wall of a waste incinerator being used on a trial basis in a residential area in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. One of the messages read, ''No more new incinerator!''

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U.S. honors Japanese scholar for ozone layer work

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuko Matsumoto (file photo), an assistant professor at the Science University of Tokyo's Suwa College in Nagano Prefecture, will be honored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for her role in protecting the Earth's ozone layer. Matsumoto, who was in charge of air pollution issues for Greenpeace International from 1990 to 1998, raised awareness of the issue and promoted the diffusion of advanced technology utilizing substances not harmful to the ozone layer.

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Coast Guard officials inspect Greenpeace ship in Okinawa

NAGO, Japan - Officials of the Japan Coast Guard early July 22 make an on-the-spot inspection of the Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace flagship which dropped four rubber dinghies carrying its activists off the Nago coast on July 21. The four were arrested for trying to enter the restricted venue of the Group of Eight (G-8) summit.

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Greenpeace urges G-8 to stop illegal logging

NAHA, Japan - Protesters aboard a Greenpeace boat urge the Group of Eight (G-8) to stop what they say illegal logging off Nago, Okinawa, the site of the three-day G-8 summit beginning July 21.

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Greenpeace protests G-8 summit in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Members of Greenpeace International, using inflatable boats, protest the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Okinawa on July 21. Four Greenpeace members were detained for approaching the venue of the three-day summit, which opened in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, the same day.

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Greenpeace members protest illegal logging

KOBE, Japan - Members of the environmental group Greenpeace unfurl a banner on a container ship near Kobe port protesting illegal logging, in this picture taken July 11 from a Kyodo News helicopter. The group is demanding that foreign ministers of Group of Eight countries take action to control illegal logging and protect ancient forests during their meeting July 12-13 in Miyazaki Prefecture.

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Environmentalists protest shipment of PCB-contaminated waste

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Activists from the Greenpeace Japan environmentalist group stage a protest May 13 in front of a U.S. Army facility at Yokohama port, protesting against the shipment of some 100 tons of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-contaminated waste. The U.S. cargo ship Greenwave left Yokohama the same day carrying the waste probably to Wake Island.

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4 Greenpeace members arrested for scaling Tokyo building

TOKYO, Japan - Four members of the environmentalist group Greenpeace drop a large banner proclaiming Tokyo the world's ''dioxin capital'' from this elevator tower near an incinerator plant in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on May 9, which they scaled to protest Japan's waste-incineration policies. The banner reads: ''Incineration First. Safety Second.'' After they descended, they were arrested on suspicion of trespassing.

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Greenpeace members protest arrival of toxic waste

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Members of Greenpeace are seen standing aboard the 65,140-ton Wan He to protest the arrival April 18 of the Panamanian-registered cargo ship with a shipment of toxic waste from U.S. military facilities in Japan. The ship returned to Yokohama port after being turned away by Canada and the United States.

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U.S. military's toxic waste returns to Yokohama amid protests

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The Wan He, a Panamanian-registered cargo ship carrying a shipment of toxic waste from U.S. military facilities in Japan returns to Yokohama port April 18 after being turned away by Canada and the United States. Some 150 members of Greenpeace and other civic groups gathered at Hommoku Pier to protest the return of the 65,140-ton ship to the port located southwest of Tokyo.

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Greenpeace briefs press on nuclear accident

MITO, Japan - Jan Rispens of Greenpeace International shows reporters in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture on Oct. 7 the environmental group's analysis of the nuclear accident that occurred Sept. 30 at a uranium-processing company in Tokaimura in the same prefecture.

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Greenpeace protests nuclear fuel shipments

TSURUGA, Japan - Shaun Burnie (2nd from L), head of Greenpeace's plutonium campaign, and other members of the group speak at a news conference aboard their ship docked at Tsuruga port in Fukui Prefecture on Sept. 10. Burnie lamented the lack of public debate on the risks of using mixed plutonium-uranium oxide (MOX) fuel. Two armed cargo ships carrying MOX fuel produced in Britain and France are due to arrive in Japan on Sept. 22.

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Greenpeace ship in France against Japan's MOX shipment

CHERBOURG, France - Patrol boats shadow a Greenpeace vessel protesting at Japan's shipment of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel from French nuclear firm COGEMA, while the Pacific Teal is being loaded with a MOX cargo in Cherbourg on July 21 for shipment to the Fukushima power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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Greenpeace delays departure of MOX ship to Japan

BARROW-IN-FURNESS, England - The Pacific Teal, which is to stop in northern France to pick up a cargo of mixed plutonium-uranium oxide (MOX) fuel to transport to Japan, is forced to stay at Barrrow-in-Furness harbor July 19 due to a blockade by Greenpeace protesting against the shipment.

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Greenpeace ship in France against Japan's MOX shipment

CHERBOURG, France - Patrol boats shadow a Greenpeace vessel protesting at Japan's shipment of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel from French nuclear firm COGEMA, while the Pacific Teal is being loaded with a MOX cargo in Cherbourg on July 21 for shipment to the Fukushima power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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(3)IWC opens meeting, pro-whaling side may gain power

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Members of Greenpeace hold up signs, which accuse Japan of attempting to secure support for the resumption of commercial whaling by using official development assistance, at the entrance of Kaikyo Messe Shimonoseki, the venue of the annual plenary meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), in Yamaguchi Prefecture on May 20.

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Greenpeace members protest illegal logging

KOBE, Japan - Members of the environmental group Greenpeace unfurl a banner on a container ship near Kobe port protesting illegal logging, in this picture taken July 11 from a Kyodo News helicopter. The group is demanding that foreign ministers of Group of Eight countries take action to control illegal logging and protect ancient forests during their meeting July 12-13 in Miyazaki Prefecture.

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Greenpeace sees volcano risks underestimated at Sendai nuclear plant

Shaun Burnie (L) of Greenpeace Germany says at a press conference in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 26, 2015, that volcanic activity risks for the two Sendai nuclear reactors in nearby Satsumasendai are underestimated by their operator, Kyushu Electric Power Co., and the Nuclear Regulation Authority. The NRA has endorsed the safety of the idled reactors, paving the way for procedures to restart them. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Greenpeace boat in Okinawa to oppose planned U.S. base relocation

A sailboat of Greenpeace arrives at Naha New Port in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 2, 2015, to protest against the planned intra-prefectural relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan to the Henoko area of Nago. The international environmental group claims offshore reclamation in the area for the relocation project threatens extinction of the dwindling dugong population there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police arrest 2 Greenpeace members over whale meat theft

TOKYO, Japan - Investigators enter the office of Greenpeace Japan in Tokyo on June 20 to conduct a search. Two group members were arrested the same day 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 stolen the meat. (Kyodo)

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Greenpeace activists arrested over whale meat theft

TOKYO, Japan - Jun Hoshikawa, executive director of Greenpeace Japan, speaks to reporters in front of Greenpeace's office in Tokyo on June 20 after police arrested two Greenpeace members on suspicion of stealing whale meat. The group presented the meat to prosecutors as evidence in its allegations of a whale meat smuggling operation involving a government-sponsored whaling program. (Kyodo)

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Police arrest 2 Greenpeace members over whale meat theft

TOKYO, Japan - Junichi Sato (C), a member of Greenpeace Japan, is arrested June 20 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 stolen the meat. Another Greenpeace Japan member was also arrested in the case. (Kyodo)

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Protest over oil leak off Mauritius

Members of Greenpeace Japan stage a protest in front of the Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. head office in Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2020, after a freighter operated by the Japanese shipping company ran aground off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean in late July and started spilling fuel oil in early August.

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Protest over oil leak off Mauritius

Members of Greenpeace Japan stage a protest in front of the Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. head office in Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2020, after a freighter operated by the Japanese shipping company ran aground off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean in late July and started spilling fuel oil in early August.

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Greenpeace members convicted of whale meat theft

AOMORI, Japan - Greenpeace Japan member Junichi Sato (C) enters the Aomori District Court in northeastern Japan on Sept. 6, 2010. Two members of the environmentalist group including Sato received suspended sentences for stealing a package of whale meat sent home by a Japanese whaling ship crew member in 2008. (Kyodo)

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TEPCO shareholders' meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Members of environmentalist group Greenpeace hold a banner criticizing Tokyo Electric Power Co. in front of a Tokyo hotel (back) where a TEPCO shareholders' meeting was held on June 28, 2011. The company is under fire over the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi complex. (Kyodo)

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(CORRECTED) Greenpeace protests at Japan embassy in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Photographers take pictures of a Greenpeace activist mounting a silent protest in front of the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta on Feb. 8, 2010. The protester holding banners called for a ''fair trial'' both in Japanese and English for two group members to be tried over their exposure of an alleged whale meat embezzlement scandal in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Protest over oil leak off Mauritius

Members of Greenpeace Japan stage a protest in front of the Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. head office in Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2020, after a freighter operated by the Japanese shipping company ran aground off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean in late July and started spilling fuel oil in early August.

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Greenpeace protest for Fukushima

Greenpeace activists protest with a paper crane in front of the U.N. Office at Geneva on Oct. 12, 2017, expressing support for people affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Greenpeace protest for Fukushima

Greenpeace activists protest with a paper crane in front of the U.N. Office at Geneva on Oct. 12, 2017, expressing support for people affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Greenpeace projects antidioxin messages on Tokyo waste plant

TOKYO, Japan - The environmentalist group Greenpeace Japan on May 22 uses a projector to display protest messages on the wall of a waste incinerator being used on a trial basis in a residential area in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. One of the messages read, ''No more new incinerator!''

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U.S. honors Japanese scholar for ozone layer work

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuko Matsumoto (file photo), an assistant professor at the Science University of Tokyo's Suwa College in Nagano Prefecture, will be honored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for her role in protecting the Earth's ozone layer. Matsumoto, who was in charge of air pollution issues for Greenpeace International from 1990 to 1998, raised awareness of the issue and promoted the diffusion of advanced technology utilizing substances not harmful to the ozone layer.

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Coast Guard officials inspect Greenpeace ship in Okinawa

NAGO, Japan - Officials of the Japan Coast Guard early July 22 make an on-the-spot inspection of the Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace flagship which dropped four rubber dinghies carrying its activists off the Nago coast on July 21. The four were arrested for trying to enter the restricted venue of the Group of Eight (G-8) summit.

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Greenpeace urges G-8 to stop illegal logging

NAHA, Japan - Protesters aboard a Greenpeace boat urge the Group of Eight (G-8) to stop what they say illegal logging off Nago, Okinawa, the site of the three-day G-8 summit beginning July 21.

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Environmentalists protest shipment of PCB-contaminated waste

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Activists from the Greenpeace Japan environmentalist group stage a protest May 13 in front of a U.S. Army facility at Yokohama port, protesting against the shipment of some 100 tons of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-contaminated waste. The U.S. cargo ship Greenwave left Yokohama the same day carrying the waste probably to Wake Island.