{"id":25528,"date":"2011-03-24T18:46:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/25528\/sea-shepherds-efforts-provide-assistance-earthquake-victims-japan\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T18:46:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T22:46:33","slug":"sea-shepherds-efforts-provide-assistance-earthquake-victims-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/25528\/sea-shepherds-efforts-provide-assistance-earthquake-victims-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Shepherd’s Efforts Provide Assistance to Earthquake Victims in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, March 24, 2011\t<\/p>\n

Sea Shepherd’s Efforts Provide Assistance to Earthquake Victims in Japan<\/h2>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/div>\n

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has contributed humanitarian aid to
\n the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in a rather ironic
\nand indirect way. Due to the interventions of Sea Shepherd against the
\nillegal Japanese whaling operations in the Southern Ocean, Sea Shepherd
\nforced the retreat of the Japanese whaling fleet a month earlier than
\ntheir whaling season was to end.<\/p>\n

Due to the whalers\u2019 early retreat, the Japanese Nisshin Maru <\/i>factory
\n ship arrived in Tokyo Bay a month earlier than normal on March 21,
\n2011. Japanese authorities immediately commandeered the ship to deliver
\naid supplies to northern Japan.<\/div>\n
The Nisshin Maru<\/i> will be taking kerosene, charcoal, instant
\nnoodles, rice, and other supplies to the northern coastal communities
\nhit hardest by the tsunami. Bringing aid and comfort to the victims of
\nthis disaster is a far more positive role for the Nisshin Maru <\/b><\/i>than
\n slaughtering whales in the Southern Ocean, which is where the fleet
\nstill would have been if not for Sea Shepherd shutting down their
\nunlawful activities in mid-February.<\/div>\n
Sea Shepherd believes that the Nisshin Maru<\/i> should be
\npermanently converted into a humanitarian aid vessel. Sea Shepherd is
\nhappy that in this small way, they were able to make it possible for the
\n Nisshin Maru<\/i> to bring aid supplies to the Japanese people whose lives have been so tragically interrupted by these recent disasters.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, March 24, 2011 Sea Shepherd’s Efforts Provide Assistance to Earthquake Victims in Japan Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has contributed humanitarian aid to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in a rather ironic and indirect way. Due to the interventions of Sea Shepherd against the illegal Japanese whaling operations in the Southern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}