I'm beginning to gradually develop a clearer picture of why Australia has been a hard-line proponent of the anti-whaling cause in the Southern Hemisphere, compared with other anti-whaling nations. Its firm and un-compromising position helps us portray a picture of the nation desperately reminding the world of the Australian claim to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica rather than being deeply intertwined with the demonstration of its persistent antagonism against Japan's whaling activities.
According to the Australian government, it claims that its Antarctic territory covers nearly 5.9 million square kilometers, about 42% of Antarctica and nearly 80% of the total area of Australia itself.
The Conference on Antarctica held in Washington, D.C. on October 15, 1959 produced "the Antarctic Treaty" agreed and signed on December 1, the same year by the following 12 nations; The Governments of Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, the French Republic, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, the Union of South Africa, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America.
What Article IV of the present Treaty stipulates is interpreted as and surmarized into "freezing of any claims to territorial sovereignty in Antarctica as long as the Treaty is in force.
It is easily assumed that Australia strongly objects Japan's whaling activities in Antarctic ocean not only for reminding the world of its territorial claim and but also possibly for reinforcing it by stretching its tentacles with the use of a terrorist group, Sea Shepherd, and even with the help of the governments of the United States, New Zealand, and Netherlands. Among them, Australia and New Zealand are claimants and the United States of America reserves its right to make a claim in the original Antarctic Treaty while Japan is a non-claimant.
Whenever Sea Shepherd refers to the Antarctic Ocean, it uses an expression "the Australian Antarctic waters" as if to say that the Antarctic Ocean has been recognized as the Australian territorial waters. Or even Sea Shepherd insists that the Government of Australia dispatch navy ships to stop the Japan's whaling activities. Besides, Sea Shepherd has already declared to execute "Suicidal Kamikaze Attack" on the Japanese whaling fleet consistently pursing lawful and peaceful whaling activities in the Antarctic Ocean.
Considering the fact that a cohort of terrorists "Sea Shepherd" has been fully protected by the Government of Australia, their statements seem to be probably threatening to the parties of the Antarctica Treaty and particularly to Japan, thereby misleading us to think that the Government of Australia has violated Article I of the Treaty, stipulating"Antarctica shall be used for peaceful purposes only. There shall be prohibited, inter alia, any measures of a military nature, such as the establishment of military bases and fortifications, the carrying out of military maneuvers, as well as the testing of any type of weapons."
The Government of Australia and Sea Shepherd should keep it in mind that the Treaty did not parse out the competing sovereignty claims, however, it established a system of joint-governance by the Treaty parties, including Japan.
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豪州が何故南氷洋における捕鯨反対を？Why Australia promotes anti-whaling movements?
ILLEGAL HARASSMENT AND TERRORISM AGAINST ICR RESEARCH 日本の調査捕鯨に対する違法ハラスメントとテロ行為 （和文もあります）
Planet of Apes Series Depict Hatred toward the Asian People (Yellow Race) 映画猿の惑星は、アジア人に対する蔑視だった
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According to Wikipedia written in Japanese, La Planète des singes in France, Planet of the Apes in U.S.A., Monkey Planet in U.K., and 猿の惑星 in Japan is said to be a story written based on its author Pierre Boulle's actual experience in French Indochina during the Greater East Asia War.
Before the outbreak of the war, Pierre Boulle was engaged in enslaving and exploiting the Asian people in French Indochina. However, he was captured by Imperial Japanese Forces and was sent to a camp where he thought he was thrown into a position of the Asian people he used to exploit.
Therefore, apes described in the movies are the Asian people. The movies depict his own interpretation (biased against the Asian people) of how he was treated by Japanese soldiers at POW camp. They are nothing but a mere expression of hatred toward the Asian people, particularly Japan and her people who stood up for the emancipation of the Asian people.
映画猿の惑星とは、何を意味しているのか。
フランス人プランテーション経営者であるブールが仏領インドシナにて現地の有色人種を使役していたところ、同じ有色人種である日本人の率いる軍の捕虜となった「立場の逆転」の経験を基に描かれたとされる ーウィキペヂィア
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