Year-end cleaning at whale museum in Japan

Year-end cleaning at whale museum in Japan

Staff clean a life-size model of a right whale at the Taiji Whale Museum in Taiji, a whaling town in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 19, 2023, as part of its year-end cleaning activities.

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