Greenpeace has written to Canon, (the world’s number one digital camera producer) headquarters in Japan asking their CEO to speak out against Japan's whaling program. Canon declined to take a stand against the killing of thousands of whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.

According to Greenpeace: “Around the world, Canon cameras shoot whales on whale-watching expeditions but in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, many whales are shot instead with exploding harpoons. Thousands of whales, including endangered fin whales, have been killed here under the guise of "scientific research" ever since the global moratorium on whaling came into force in 1986. Whale meat from the hunt is sold to a tiny minority of Japanese people who eat whale meat -- the rest is turned into dog food or added to the stockpile of around 4,000 tons of unsold meat.”