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EEL

Japan has already told the EU that the Japanese eel is at no risk of extinction due to international trade.
JAPAN
Jun 24, 2025
Japan opposes EU moves toward eel trade regulation under CITES
Japan plans to collaborate with countries including China and South Korea to urge signatories to reject the proposal.
BUSINESS
Jul 23, 2022
Undeterred by higher prices, Japanese line up for eel on Day of the Ox
Shops in Japan attracted hordes of customers Saturday, this year's Day of the Ox, despite price hikes resulting from poor eel catches and higher transportation costs.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Food Sustainability in Japan
Oct 31, 2021
It will take more than swapping your eel for eggplant to save Japan’s unagi
The hard truth is that the growing appetite for Japanese unagi is having an adverse effect on their numbers. Improving ecosystems and vegetarian alternatives can only do so much.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 6, 2018
Expensive and unsustainable, 'unagi' remains as popular as ever
Unagi (eel) may be one of Japan's most beloved dishes, but despite its much-touted health benefits, rising prices and shrinking numbers of juvenile eels may threaten consumption levels of this Japanese dish.
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Jul 31, 2017
Japanese treat themselves on annual eel-eating day
July 25 marked a traditional eel-eating 'Doyo no Ushi no Hi,' or the Day of the Ox.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 3, 2017
Ryo: Grilled eel perfectly paired with sake and relaxed style
Specialist unagi restaurants generally fall into two categories. Most follow tradition, evoking the old days when grilled freshwater eel was a humble food of the masses. Others adopt a more sophisticated, formal approach for their eel cuisine. But Ryo boasts a style very much its own.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KYOTO RESTAURANTS
Mar 10, 2017
Iwasaki: Family run, Michelin starred, and no food photos allowed
It was a coincidence that on the same day we had a reservation for Iwasaki, a small family-run restaurant west of Kyoto's Municipal Office, the Iwasaki's were quietly marking a milestone: the restaurant's 10-year anniversary.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 27, 2016
Amid charges of sexism, city in Kyushu pulls video promoting local eels
A promotional YouTube video made by the city of Shibushi, Kagoshima Prefecture, featuring a young woman in a swimsuit who morphs into an eel has been pulled following a public outcry that it was sexist.
Japan Times
JAPAN / WEDGE
Feb 9, 2014
Eco-labels urged to save endangered marine life
2013 highlighted the decline in Japan's fishery resources, with baby eel trading at ¥3 million per kilogram — more expensive than silver — and the catch quota of bluefin tuna being slashed at the December meeting of the Commission for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks...
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jul 22, 2013
Tweet Beat: #孤独のグルメ
The 'late night eating terror' is back and ranking this last week's most popular Twitter hashtags!
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 17, 2013
Tastes like chicken? New 'unagi' product uses fowl in place of eel
If your "unagi" (grilled eel) dish tastes eerily similar to chicken this summer, that may be because it is.

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