Coastal town teaches children about whaling , serves up fried whale meat . In the town of Wada , 62 miles ( 100 kilometers ) south of Tokyo in Chiba prefecture , dozens of 10-year-old students watched Thursday as workers carved up a 30-foot Baird 's beaked whale during an educational field trip , before being served a meal of fried whale meat . An international court has banned Japan 's scientific whale mission in the Antarctic . Score: 6 Despite the ban , small-scale coastal hunts and whaling in northwest Pacific continues .
Coastal town teaches children about whaling , serves up fried whale meat . An international court has banned Japan 's scientific whale mission in the Antarctic . Score: 6 Despite the ban , small-scale coastal hunts and whaling in northwest Pacific continues .