OMG!
While this is not FFXI related, I am just so horrified I had to say something. How can such a Barbaric act be happening in a supposedly civilized country. This following is a brief excerpt, more info can be found by googling "japan dolphins".
In the Japanese fishing village of Taiji, fishermen are rounding up and slaughtering hundreds and even thousands of dolphins right now.
After driving pods of dolphins into shallow coves, the fishermen kill the dolphins, slashing their throats with knives or stabbing them with spears. Thrashing about, the dolphins take as long as six minutes to die. The water turns red with their blood and the air fills with their screams.
This brutal massacre - the largest scale dolphin kill in the world - goes on for six months of every year. Even more shocking, the captive dolphin industry is an accomplice to the kill.
In the Japanese fishing village of Taiji, fishermen are rounding up and slaughtering hundreds and even thousands of dolphins right now.
After driving pods of dolphins into shallow coves, the fishermen kill the dolphins, slashing their throats with knives or stabbing them with spears. Thrashing about, the dolphins take as long as six minutes to die. The water turns red with their blood and the air fills with their screams.
This brutal massacre - the largest scale dolphin kill in the world - goes on for six months of every year. Even more shocking, the captive dolphin industry is an accomplice to the kill.