MINAMIBOSO, Japan - When Yachiyo Ichihara was a child in Wada, one of Japan’s oldest whaling villages, she’d go down to the harbor with a bucket and carry it home full of freshly butchered whale meat.
In those days, men would peddle the meat from carts, calling “Whale, whale” as they went door to door. But in 1986, a whaling moratorium drove prices up and made whale a luxury food. Barely 300 people are directly connected to whaling, and whale represented only about 0.1 percent of Japan’s total meat consumption in 2016, according to government data.
“Previous prime ministers were afraid of what’d be said if they left, that Japan would become a villain,” he told Reuters. Japan has not yet set its hunt quota. But many in the industry believe the number taken will fall between the 180 minkes and sei whales taken in the Northern Pacific and the 330 minkes hunted in the Antarctic.
So sad
Oh sure. Who looks at an amazing, intelligent, and increasingly endangered creature like this and think, 'I'd like to slaughter and chop her into little bits.' ? Evidently, Yoko Ichihara and her customers. Disgusting.
Looks MUCH better than the dog I had in Korea.
Yoko has great shoulders and a helluv an arm. Guess that's needed when chopping the world's remaining whales.
Whale meat Japanese restaurant.😔🥺😉💋💜🍙🐳
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Dog & cat meat is included 😂🤮
I hope Yoko's next shit is a hedgehog...👍
What would you consider a mainstream restaurant?
Pricks
Yoko, were they fresh out of chimpanzee?
Why are you promoting this ?
WRONG!
Why is this news? People eat pigs by the millions, one of the smartest animals on earth. If they are that barbaric and uncaring, some whales (and dogs in that Chinese festival) don't mean much do they? Humans suck, top to bottom.
Really? You're promoting whaling, in 2019? Disgusting. 🤮
Disgusting, Reuters.
Yeeeeeeeeh. Nah
yum
Canabalism was also a human culture but as a society we decided to rise above that, can they do the same for this species that is endangered
Cultural Relativism works and is.
We need to show this people that it aint right . Maybe we should all stop buying Japanese goods to save the whales ....................
If it wasn’t for the discovery of oil there most likely not be a whale in existence at all
Whales and dolphins are beautiful and intelligent creatures. Eating them is like eating cats and dogs. I wouldn't touch 'em even if I'm starving in the middle of the ocean. BTW How sure are we that Japanese people as a whole 'cherish' this culture
Not cherished by whales or the rest of the oceanic ecosystem...
omg. makes me so hungry.
And people were once a cherished part of Polynesian food culture.
'Cherished part' of food culture'? Give me a break. I lived there 18 yrs and never met anyone who 'cherished' whale meat. Basically it's a matter of a) pride among politicians not to give in to pressure, and b) support for a few dying communities.
Nooo
It's over with me and japan ✌😎🇪🇺🇯🇵 FIFAWWC OnThisDay WHALES whale whaling wails wheels Wales 🏴
It's time for Japanese to be responsible consumers. Stop this practice. No 'cultural tradition' should ever be a pass to destroy endangered, or near endangered animals.
Disgusting and disheartening
Disgusting! God, please🙏, give me an early Christmas gift and make them choke on that meat.
First Japan gets us Fukushima. And now contaminated whale meat. Thank you Japan for making the Pacific Ocean glow in the dark
no no no I love Japan but NO NO NO
Did the international community accept ?
Canada allows commercial whaling for ethnic minorities. It’s more than 6000 per year, and more than 30 times of the research whaling 198 of Japan last year. Norway and Iceland catching 2000 a year, but you never blame them because they are Whites!.
The whaling is taking place in US, Canada, Russia, Norway, and South Korea. But what is the reason for pointing Only Japan? Why you never say the same thing against US Canada Russia Norway? This is just a Racist Act using the whaling .
autarchy is evil, 'free' trade is good
No!!
NO. And, climate change and man's garbage are killing what few we have left.
Good!
I know nobody who eats whale meat. I've heard most Japanese don't eat it.
Prince of Whales intervention needed!
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Hey Japan, why don't you eat aborted baby fetuses instead?
Japanese disgusting whales meat
Japan was nice enough to build a nuclear reactor on the beach when they know they're prone to tsunamis. And now they're giving us whale meet with cesium 138 in it
'Every sample [of whale meat] showed mercury contamination exceeding the Japanese Government’s own recommended safe level of 0.4 parts per million (ppm).' whaling japan
Fuck Japan
We must straighten out the relationships between industrial development and environmental protection. He’s obviously in the wrong. Be aware that when joy reaches the extreme, sorrow is in the wake. That is why everybody is ready to go except Prince Philips.
Actually the question is WHY IS A SUPPOSEDLY CIVILIZED SOCIETY HUNTING & KILLING WHALES IN THE 21ST CENTURY?
Meh...I'd try it...
Why do you have to eat whale meat! Can't chickens, ducks and fish?
Boycott
They are saying one thing but meaning another. Just tell them that we find it inappropriate to take a stand at present.
Best time to do it, if they wanted to. Are they?
Assholes
There is no reason for whaling in 2019
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