Residents of Taiji gathered in whale eateries with names like Tail and rolled their eyes when told of Oscar laurels for the film, which they see as yet another biased foreign take on their culture.
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'Cove' Oscar won't end Taiji dolphin kill
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Town angry after movie wins Oscar
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Some reaction from the town of Taiji to yesterday's Oscar win for the documentary film, The Cove.
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Controversial dolphin film, The Cove, wins Best Documentary Oscar
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I wonder how much Japanese media coverage this'll get...
Read more »A Chat between a Japanese and an American on the Taiji Dolphins after Watching “The Cove”
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This is a conversation between two people after watching the documentary, “The Cove,” a real-life-mission-impossible-mission to film the dolphin slaughter/harvest in a small cove in Taiji, Wakayama.
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Japan Gets Its First Chance to See 'The Cove'
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The Cove — a U.S. documentary has been called "advocacy filmmaking at its best" since its release on July 31 — depicts Taiji's centuries-old tradition of killing dolphins with an unflinching eye on the sometimes gruesome process.
Read more »Japan's whaling town residents have dangerously high levels of mercury
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Japanese diners who enjoy tucking into dolphin meat are putting their health at risk, as well as courting international condemnation.
A new study by two Japanese universities found that residents of Taiji, a whaling town on the Pacific coast, who frequently ate the meat of pilot whale - a member of the dolphin family - have mercury levels 10 times the national average.
