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...eating whale different from eating pigs or cows?' KEIJI FUJINO, a whale-meat butcher in the Japanese port of Shimonoseki, where Japan's largest whaling expedition in decades set sail...
KEIJI FUJINO, a whale-meat butcher in the Japanese port of Shimonoseki, where Japan's largest whaling expedition in decades set sail...
...past decade, the votes just weren't there. But in the whaling commission - set up in 1946 to provide for the conservation of whale stocks and promote orderly development of the whaling industry - there is always another meeting. Next May on its home turf - the southern whaling port of Shimonoseki - Japan will battle on. Japan, Norway and their allies did win two big fights, blocking the creation of new whale sanctuaries in the South Atlantic and the South Pacific. "There is no scientific basis for sanctuaries," said Minoru Morimoto, Japan's commissioner. His country is the only one that kills...
...with approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which had conducted a four-year review of the importing venture arranged by Nobuyoshi Kuraoka, the proprietor of New York City's Nippon Restaurant. The puffer fish will be processed only by fugu chefs in the southern Japanese city of Shimonoseki, which has not lost a customer in 50 years. Japanese government officials will verify tetrodotoxin levels before the fugu is flash-frozen and flown to New York. Cost of a full- course fugu meal at Nippon Restaurant...
...managed to weave by his story. The family never speaks of "dying"; the term they use is "not living". The old man speaks of his wife as if she were yet alive and watching over him at the remove of a distance much smaller than the trainride from Shimonoseki to Tokyo...