The Fisheries Agency of Japan is continuing its campaign to bring back commercial whaling by attempting to buy the votes of members of the International Whaling Commission.

You can help by printing out this letter (in Japanese) and mailing it to the Japanese foreign minister, Ms. Yoriko Kawaguchi, at:

Ms. Yoriko Kawaguchi
The Minister for Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
11-1, 2-chome, Shiba Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8519, Japan

After you print the letter, please remember to fill in the date in between the Japanese characters on the upper right. The number of the month (eg. 04 for April) goes into the first blank spot and the number of the day of the month goes into the second blank spot. Please sign the letter at the bottom before you mail it.

There is also a downloadable poster that you can print on regular paper and a sticker that you can print on sticky paper to support this campaign.

The kit:

Letter to Foreign Minister (PDF format, in Japanese)

English translation of letter to Foreign Minister (For your information only - please do not mail.)

Whale poster (in JPEG format) - prints on regular paper. To print poster, select File --> Print

Whale sticker (in PDF format) - prints on regular size paper.

You can also help by writing a letter to the editor with these tips from the Greenpeace press office.

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