Animal rights activists protested against Japan's dolphin hunts in a rally outside the US embassy in Tokyo Thursday, calling on President Barack Obama to pressure the country over the issue.
Environmental activists protest against dolphin hunting in Japan near the US embassy in Tokyo on September 2, 2010. Japanese media said fishermen in Taiji had trapped some 20 bottlenose dolphins in the secluded cove on Thursday
Ric O'Barry, star of the Oscar-winning eco-documentary "The Cove", handed a petition with 1.7 million signatures from more than 150 countries to US embassy officials, a day after the dolphin season started in the town of Taiji.
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