{"id":52131,"date":"2023-01-24T22:57:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T13:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/24\/campaigners-criticise-japan-firm-selling-whale-meat-from-vending-machines"},"modified":"2023-01-24T22:57:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T13:57:47","slug":"campaigners-criticise-japan-firm-selling-whale-meat-from-vending-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52131","title":{"rendered":"Campaigners criticise Japan firm selling whale meat from vending machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyodo Senpaku opened \u2018stores\u2019 at two locations in Tokyo after successful trial<\/p>\n<p>A Japanese whaling company has sparked an angry response from animal rights campaigners after it started selling whale meat from vending machines in an effort to boost consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Kyodo Senpaku, whose vessels led Japan\u2019s whaling fleet during its controversial expeditions to the Southern Ocean, opened its first <em>kujira<\/em> (whale meat) \u201cstores\u201d at two locations in Tokyo this month after a successful trial late last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/24\/campaigners-criticise-japan-firm-selling-whale-meat-from-vending-machines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyodo Senpaku opened \u2018stores\u2019 at two locations in Tokyo after successful trialA Japanese whaling company has sparked an angry response from animal rights campaigners after it started selling whale meat from vending machines in an effort to boost consum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,1746,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-whales","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52132,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52131\/revisions\/52132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}