With Commercial Whaling Resuming in July, Japan Publishes Whale Meat Cookbook

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The moratorium on Japan’s controversial whaling program, in place since 1982, will come to a close at the end of this month. On December 26, 2018, Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga Yoshihide announced that Japan would withdraw from the International Whaling Commission and resume commercial whaling in Japanese territorial waters from July 1, 2019.

This will put Japan together with Iceland and Norway in the group of countries conducting commercial whaling.

In preparation, the Japanese branch of Myklebust Hvalprodukter AS, one of Norway's largest whale meat processors and exporters, has launched an online whale meat products retailer website called kujiraniku.com くじらにく.com and published what it is calling a "Whale Meat Cooking Manual" containing recipes. Japanese, Korean and Western-style dishes are included.

For informational purposes, we dispassionately present a few pages from this publication:

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