Whale meat in Japan

Yoshifumi Kai, head of the Japan Small-Type Whaling Association, holds whale meat at a fish market in Taiji, a well-known whaling town in western Japan, on July 4, 2019. The meat was put up for auction the same day, the first since Japan resumed commercial whaling on July 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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