With the domestic market in long-term decline, whalers and restaurants are working with the Japan travel bureau in a bid to ...

CORRECTS THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S NAME TO KWIYEON HA - A customer purchases whale meat from a vending machine at Kyodo Senpaku's unmanned store, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, in Yokohama, Japan. The Japanese ...

The machines will sell whale sashimi, steak and stews. The consumption of whale meat in the country has seen a steady decline since its peak in the 1960s. Read More ...

whale meat vending machines. The Kujira (Whale) Store, an unmanned outlet that recently opened in the port town of Yokohama near Tokyo, houses three machines for whale sashimi, whale bacon ...

Whale meat has long been a source of controversy but sales in the new vending machines have quietly gotten off to a good start, the operator says. Anti-whaling protests have subsided since Japan ...