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The Guardian - UK
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Justin McCurry in Tokyo

Campaigners criticise Japan firm selling whale meat from vending machines

A customer with whale meat on the opening day of a shop by a Japanese whale-hunting company with vending machines, in Yokohama, Japan.
A customer with whale meat on the opening day of a shop by a Japanese whale-hunting company with vending machines, in Yokohama, Japan. Photograph: Androniki Christodoulou/Reuters

A Japanese whaling company has sparked an angry response from animal rights campaigners after it started selling whale meat from vending machines in an effort to boost consumption.

Kyodo Senpaku, whose vessels led Japan’s whaling fleet during its controversial expeditions to the Southern Ocean, opened its first kujira (whale meat) “stores” at two locations in Tokyo this month after a successful trial late last year.

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