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Posing as diners last month, while in town for the Oscars, the film-makers discreetly recorded a waitress describing slices of exotic pink flesh on their plates as kujira, meaning whale.
The Guardian World News Andrew Clark 2010
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Though it will forever be unknown exactly how the name came about and myths will circle it eternally, the Japanese words gorira (gorilla) and kujira (whale) were combined and the beast became known as Gojira, which in turn became, in the west, Godzilla.
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By the way, I heard that Godzilla was named as a combination of “gorilla” and “kujira whale”.
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In a comment in the second, I learned of the derivation of the monster's name: "Godzilla of course is a corruption of the Japanese Gojira, which is a portmanteau of gorira (gorilla) and kujira (whale): Gorilla-whale."
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Whale meat, or kujira, is often available in Japanese fish markets but is illegal in America, and the documentary team's investigation was conducted in conjunction with law enforcement officials who later raided the restaurant.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Whale meat, or kujira, is often available in Japanese fish markets but is illegal in America, and the documentary team's investigation was conducted in conjunction with law enforcement officials who later raided the restaurant.
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2010
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I’d expected at least one serving of whale, or kujira, as they called it, but no such luck.
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It turns out that the monster’s name (Gojira in Japanese), may have been the nickname of an overweight studio publicist, created by combining the words for gorilla (gorira) and whale (kujira).
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However, it’s more than likely that the whale sold in stores and in the local izakayas is really dolphin “iruka” in Japanese, rather than the “kujira” usually printed on the packaging from traditional whaling towns like Taiji.
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