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Tokyo, Tuesday, June 8:
I’ve just arrived in Tokyo, tired and hungry, and afraid I might be turned away by immigration.

But surprisingly, they escorted me through a single lane away from everyone else and, after passing me through the biometric fingerprint and retinal scan, I was met by a horde of 30 police and a Japanese media blitz that surrounded me in a frenzy of TV and still cameras, lit up by scores of portable lights.

Onlookers must have thought I was some kind of film celebrity, although in the past the Japanese media always ignored me. When asked about The Cove movie, I mentioned that Japan’s constitutional article 21 prohibits the censorship of an issue where the people have the right to know. After that I was quickly rescued by officials of Unplugged Inc, distributors of the Oscar-winning Cove documentary, who whisked me to their car bound for my hotel in Tokyo.

Yesterday a total of 55 Japanese people, including journalists and filmmakers, harshly criticized theatre owners in Tokyo and Osaka for giving in to the demands of the Nationalist activists to cancel screenings of the award-winning Cove documentary. The outraged group said the cancellations threaten freedom of expression.
Read the article here:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-06-08-dolphin-killing_N.htm?csp=34

The Cove is still scheduled to be opened in more than 20 theatres later this month.

We are off to a very good start in getting the truth out to the people of Japan about the dolphin slaughter. This will be the first chance the general public in Japan have the opportunity to view The Cove.

Thanks for all your help in supporting our efforts here. It is making a huge difference.

RIC O’BARRY;
Campaign Director, Save Japan Dolphins, Earth Island Institute