Whaling in Japan

Photo taken Aug. 30, 2019, shows a whaling monument at a port in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. Ishinomaki's Ayukawa district once thrived as a whaling base. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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