For a while after the war, whale meat and boiled fish-paste products were typically used as inexpensive substitutes of animal meat and occupied an important position as supplying the protein important for Japanese dietary lives.
戦後しばらくは、鯨肉は魚肉練り製品とともに、安価な代用肉の代名詞であり、日本人の重要なたんぱく質源として食生活の中で重要な位置を占めた。