The Cove

by Amazon

Have you ever seen “The Cove”? 

Today I was greatly shocked to see a TV program by NHK. The title was “Live with whales” and it was about Taiji town in Wakayama prefecture where the movie called “The Cove” took place. As I watched it, I became angry and sad. No, I was filled with fury. 

Concerning whaling, there has been a difficult problem because whaling countries and anti-whaling countries could never agree on a mutual understanding due to different cultures. Well, now I mentioned “a mutual understanding“ but in this case, I thought that the Sea Shepherd did not try to understand the other side. Why do they accept a whale meat eating culture and leave the Taiji people as they are. Is thinking so because I’m Japanese? It comes to putting the blame on others eventually. 

Actually, when I was a child, I had relations with whales, because my father was a chief engineer of a whaling ship. He went fishing in the Antarctic Ocean and there was regularly whale meat in the freezer of my house. I was raised in such an environment, so I couldn’t treat the situation that Taiji people suffered as being nothing to do with me. If my father was alive, what would he say? 

Anyway, this TV program was food for thought. There is still an uncertain feeling in my heart.