Chiba, Japan, to commemorate the beginning of the whaling season, Chiba City Whale Slaughter factory organized Japanese students to watch the process of slaughtering whales, and distributed the cut whale meat to those present. This follows a U.N. court injunction prohibiting Japan from killing whales near Antarctica. Image source: Visual China
The Japanese whaling industry, or whaling in Japan, is a whaling activity carried out by Japanese fishermen under the pretext of "scientific investigation" with the encouragement of the Japanese government. Image source: Visual China
Whaling, the rope of the hinge or fork, dart, etc., by shooting or throwing into the whale body for hunting. There are two types of baleen whales and toothed whales, mainly blue whales, fin whales, right whales, sperm whales, humpback whales, Arctic whales, gray whales, iowls, and small eel whales. Image source: Visual China
Because whale oil is a valuable industrial raw material, whaling in some countries in Europe and the Americas has been prosperous throughout history. Since the mid-20th century, whaling has declined due to resource decline due to overhunting and international restrictions on whaling. Image source: Visual China
Japan's commercial whaling has a history of more than 400 years (Japan has the legend of Xu Fu's whaling), and is currently the world's largest whaling and whale-eating country. Adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, Wadacho, an area of 32.45 square kilometers and a population of about 5,800, Choshi City, Chiba Prefecture, southern Tokyo, is Japan's oldest whaling fishing village, currently one of the four major whaling bases in Japan, where locals are skilled in whaling and slaughtering whales, and whale meat is one of the staple foods of the locals. Image source: Visual China
The southern mallet whales feed in the waters off the Bunsho Peninsula in Wada-cho every June, and the local fishermen's whaling season runs until September. There is now a quota for whaling, and the fishermen of Wada town only have a quota of 26 mallet whales a year, which is higher than before. Image source: Visual China