Posted by Dave (in Anchorage, Alaska)
Here’s a beautiful animation by director Yamamura Koji that recently appeared on the Whale Love Wagon website.
Today, only one country in the world continues to conduct whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary: Japan. There was a time in Japan during the food shortage hardships of the postwar period when whale meat was taken as a valuable source of protein. We are alive today thanks in a very real sense to this gift, so should we not reach out in gratitude to whales now and seek a path of peaceful coexistence? This is the message behind a beautiful new animated work by director Yamamura Koji.
Whale Tale: The Story
A seaside school. In the corridor stands the principal, beloved of the high-spirited youngsters. Gazing at a picture of a whale drawn as a child, the head teacher is swept away with sentiment into a flashback from the past. Just then, on the ocean horizon…
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