A Japanese whaling operator, after struggling for years to promote its products amid protests from conservationists, has found a new way to cultivate clientele and bolster sales: whale meat vending machines.
The Kujira Store, an unmanned outlet that recently opened in the port town of Yokohama near Tokyo, houses three machines for whale sashimi, whale bacon, whale skin and whale steak, as well as canned whale meat. Prices range from 1,000 yen to 3,000 yen .
Kyodo Senpaku hopes to set up vending machines at 100 locations nationwide in five years, company spokesperson Konomu Kubo told The Associated Press. A fourth is to open in Osaka next month. Company officials say sales at the two Tokyo outlets have been significantly higher than expected, keeping staff busy replenishing products.
Kashiwabara said she planned to share her purchase of a 3,000 yen handy-size chunk, neatly wrapped in a freezer bag, with her husband over sake.Japan resumed commercial whaling in July 2019 after withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission, ending 30 years of what it called research whaling, which had been criticized by conservationists as a cover for commercial hunts banned by the IWC in 1988.
In a show of determination to keep the whaling industry alive in the coming decades, Kyodo Senpaku will construct a 6 billion yen new mother ship for launch next year to replace the aging Nisshin Maru.Whaling is losing support in other whaling nations such as Iceland, where only one whaler remains. Conservationists say whale meat is no longer part of the daily diet in Japan, especially for younger generations.
Annual meat supply had fluctuated in a range of 3,000-5,000 tons, including imports from Norway and Iceland. The amount further fell in 2019 to 2,000 tons, or 20 grams of whale meat per person a year, the Fisheries Agency statistics show.
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