Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Maintenance Division shows an auction selling fresh meat of fin whales at a fish market in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi prefecture, southern Japan Thursday, Dec. 12 ...

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The puffer fish is a full-time obsession of Shimonoseki, and with good reason. More than 80 percent of the country's puffer fish supply is sourced here, with some calling the city Japan's fugu ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--Raw whale meat fetched 500,000 yen ($3,560) per kilogram at an auction here on Nov. 14, double the previous record of 250,000 yen set in Osaka in October.

Courtesy of Setouchi DMO. Fugu (or blowfish) is by far the country's most dangerous dish, and it's the one that Shimonoseki is most known for. If improperly prepared, fugu can be toxic to those ...

The Haedomari fish market in Shimonoseki handles the largest volume of the wild torafugu variety in Japan. But Monday's blowfish catch was around one-third of the seasonal average.

But while rural Shimonoseki would make an ideal invasion point for hipster aliens who feel that attacking Tokyo has been done so often in anime as to be played out but not quite so often that they can ...

Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Maintenance Division shows an auction selling fresh meat of fin whales at a fish market in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi prefecture, southern Japan Thursday, Dec. 12 ...