Greenpeace Japan Ad in 2008
This ad from Greenpeace Japan is running in the International Herald Tribune/Asahi Shimbun Asian edition to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the UNDHR. This is the way the ad is running, so the reader has to rotate the paper to read the text.
“In a world turned upside down, you can be arrested for exposing a crime.”
“Two Greenpeace activists were arrested for exposing a scandal involving the embezzlement of whale meat from the annual Southern Ocean hunt, which is subsidized by Japanese taxpayers. One of Japan’s leading newspapers, Asahi Shimbun, thought there was sufficient evidence for a full investigation. The Tokyo District Prosecutor began an enquiry. But it was shut down the same day that police raided the Greenpeace offices, membership lists were seized, and the activists themselves were arrested.” Read the entire text in the ad, upside down.













