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Kagoshima City, Japan, April 27, 2008, An air filled replica of a whale on the deck of the whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru. The Japanese phrase translates to Whales are part of Japan's food culture. Open to the public while berthed at a whaling festival in Kagoshima, Japan the whale represents where a freshly killed whale would be on the deck. The Nisshin Maru is the largest ship in the Japanese whaling fleet and the world's only whale factory ship.