Year-end cleaning at whale museum in western Japan

Year-end cleaning at whale museum in western Japan

Staff clean a life-size model of a right whale at a museum in Taiji, a whaling town in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 21, 2021, ahead of the New Year.

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