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JAPAN / IDLE HARPOONS
Jun 28, 2001
Taiji watches its whale and eats it too
This town with ties to whales that go back more than three centuries is staking its future on the giant mammals despite Japan's forced halting of commercial whaling in 1988. Masashi Urayama, a former fisherman who used to catch dolphins, is betting that whale watching, not hunting, is his and the town's future. He captains the whale-watching ship Sueyoshi Maru, which takes tourists about 40 km out into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Taiji.
JAPAN / IDLE HARPOONS
Jun 27, 2001
Younger generation in port town turns its back on eating whale meat
Here in Taiji, where residents have always taken pride in their town's whaling history, there have been steady moves among locals to distance themselves from anything to do with whales. Miyato Sugimori, a 50-year-old official of the Taiji fisheries association, remembers vividly the day when his eldest son suddenly refused to eat whale meat.
JAPAN / IDLE HARPOONS
Jun 26, 2001
Port recalls when whale boats returned lopsided with catch
During the heyday of commercial whaling in the 1960s, the town of Taiji prospered as the cradle of whaling, supplying gunners to seven fleets of Japanese ships that headed south to the Antarctic to hunt the giant mammals. Today, just 10 people in the town in the southeastern part of Wakayama Prefecture continue the tradition, seizing small coastal water whales that are excluded from the International Whaling Commission's ban on commercial whaling.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Japan’s cannabis market growing rapidly amid regulatory shift
The legality of products that contain cannabinoids, a group of substances derived from the cannabis plant, has been somewhat murky in Japan.
The story isn't over for Japan's bookstores
Later this month, author Shogo Imamura will open Honmaru, a bookstore that allows other businesses to rent its shelves. It's part of a wave of ideas Japanese booksellers are trying to compete with online spaces.
Hybrid work takes root in Japan, survey finds
A dealer works in the trading room at a foreign exchange brokerage in Tokyo on March 28. An overwhelming majority of respondents who currently work remotely in some capacity say they wish to continue to do so.
Shohei Ohtani signs deal with sports technology company Rapsodo
Shohei Ohtani has been appointed as the new technology ambassador for Rapsodo, the company announced Monday.
A craft beer crawl through Tokyo’s top bars, brewpubs and dives
If all you drink is Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin, you're depriving yourself of some of the best craft beer Tokyo has to offer — and there sure is a lot of it out there.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Tsukiji 2030s: A stadium, culinary center and transportation hub
A computer-generated image shows redevelopment plans for the former site of the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo.
Hearing the impact of climate change in Okinawa, one bird call at a time
Toshihiro Kinjo (center), a research support technician at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, inspects an audio recording device in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, on April 3 as Masako Ogasawara, a research support specialist at OIST, looks on.
Japan’s cannabis market growing rapidly amid regulatory shift
The legality of products that contain cannabinoids, a group of substances derived from the cannabis plant, has been somewhat murky in Japan.

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