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Butoh means the 'the darkness dance'. Actually is also the collective name for a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement inspired by the Ankoku-Butoh movement.

Once a year, in a secret cove in Taiji, Japan thousands of dolphins are driven into a hidden area behind fences and barbed wire. Then trainers from marine parks around the world fly in and pick their favorites and pay extraordinary prices for the dolphins. The public is allowed to watch the trainers select their dolphins, but not when the remaining creatures are herded into another area and slaughtered. It is estimated that each year Japanese fishermen slaughter more than 20,000 dolphins. The struggle to stop the slaughter is documented in The Cove.

Pioneers is a series on Japans first surfers. BNow, in their sixties, they still feel the same passion for the sea and surf. www.hannahlipowsky.com

It's the summer so it's time to head to one of the beaches not too far out side of Tokyo. People jump on trains, crowd into cars, and make there way past Yokohama out to Zushi Beach. A quiet little town, that every summer becomes packed with Tokyo refugees seeking a escape from the scorching concrete jungle that is Tokyo.

The japanese sea's are full of boats clearly marked in the english words 'Research'. This is the general reason used by the japanese government for ongoing whaling operations in the seas around Japan. 

The institute of Cetacean research was set up as a scape goat for ongoing whaling operations. One of the lead figure heads and researchers, Dr Luis Pastere, a Chilean born researcher stands steadily behind his Japanese counterparts and states that they are doing no harm and that its necessary that this research occurs. 


Ct 2009