"It is not a kind of food you have daily, but a delicacy," said Nobuhiro Kishigami, an expert on indigenous whaling at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka. He noted whale meat is more ...

Nobuhiro Kishigami, a professor and expert on indigenous whaling at National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, said whale meat is eaten in some whaling towns but rarely in Tokyo or elsewhere in Japan.

A butchered bowhead whale can yield thousands of pounds of food. The ninit—community shares of meat and blubber ... Yüyan is indigenous himself, a descendant of the Hezhe (Nanai in Russian ...