Ketchup?

Whaling: A Japanese Obsession With American Roots - New York Times

Apparently, Japanese schools are now serving delicious whale meat stewed in... ketchup.

Anyway, as I've noted in the past, the Japanese are positively obsessed with whale meat. Not quite so much as they are with, say, giant robots, but obsessed. This article has the goods on why. Since this is the Times, of course it's all our fault.