Whale meat has long been a source of controversy but sales in the new vending machines have quietly gotten off to a good start, the operator says. Anti-whaling protests have subsided since Japan ...

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 ...

A Japanese whaling company is opening vending machines to drive up demand for whale meat. The machines will sell whale sashimi, whale bacon, whale skin, whale steak, and canned whale meat.

A Japanese whaling firm unveiled vending machines offering whale sashimi, whale steak and whale bacon in Yokohama on Tuesday in hopes of reviving sales of a food long in decline and shunned by ...

Whale meat has long been a source of controversy but sales in the new vending machines have quietly gotten off to a good start, the operator says. Anti-whaling protests have subsided since Japan ...

Konomu Kubo, a spokesperson for Kyodo Senpaku Co. explains how whale meat is being sold from a vending machine at the firm’s store, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, in Yokohama, Japan. A Japanese ...

CORRECTS THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S NAME TO KWIYEON HA - A customer purchases whale meat from a vending machine at Kyodo Senpaku's unmanned store, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, in Yokohama, Japan. The Japanese ...