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Whaling in Japan

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In Japan, few people eat whale meat anymore, but whaling remains popular

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In Japan, people only eat about 30 grams of whale meat a year — about the size of a slice of ham. So, why is whaling still so popular there?

Workers butcher a Baird's Beaked whale at Wada port in Minamiboso, southeast of Tokyo. Today's order by a UN court now stops the practice in the southern ocean.

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Today’s answer is the Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean. That’s where the Greenpeace ship “Esperanza” is tailing a Japanese whaling ship. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the BBC’s Jonah Fisher who is aboard the Greenpeace ship.