...few who benefit from whaling have a lot of power within government...

Call me cynical but I don't believe it is enough to work on the Japanese public. If only 5% of the population consume the whale meat
do you suppose a handful of highly respected "elders", bent and stiff with age, have their powerful sons or daughters pull the strings to the tune of trillions of yen in order to serve up some whale sushi or sashimi for tea? No.

So then who are the "few" who benefit from whaling? I'd like to see some publicity on HOW the "few" can have so much sway in government. I'll bet it's a good old case of business in bed with government or perhaps a case of the personal investment portfolios of ministers in government.

Yes I'd like to know more about how it works before I give my money to either GP or SS though I do like the drama of the latter!

The problem is not so much encouraging the average Japanese citizen- who most likely is already against whaling the same way most Canadians would be opposed to clubbing baby seals, as stopping the industries who are doing quite well out of it and also shaming the exclusive consumers of the product (who may well enjoy more their status symbol of whale meat and seal fur coats than the approval of people they may think are 'below' them).

Such campaigns have had SOME success in the past- but are rarely properly communicated.