says Ueno Ken’ichirō, owner of the Shimonoseki restaurant Fuku no Seki ... including Yamaguchi, Fukuoka, Ōita, Tokyo, and Osaka. Ueno says, “There are very tight standards in Yamaguchi.

owned by Tokyo-based seafood company Kyodo Senpaku. During this month, Kangei Maru is scheduled to leave its home port of Shimonoseki for an eight-month maiden voyage off the north-east coast of ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture—Japan ... ordered the suspension of research whaling in 2014, taking issue with Tokyo’s claim that it was killing whales for scientific purposes.

TOKYO (AP) — Meat from fin whales caught ... at the Sapporo fish market and the Kangei Maru’s home port of Shimonoseki. In Shimonoseki, where 250 kilograms (550 lbs) of fin whale meat was ...

Almost as soon as the Kaikyokan Aquarium in Shimonoseki, southern Japan closed ... During the Covid lockdown in 2020, Tokyo’s Sumida Aquarium asked for volunteers to FaceTime its 300 spotted ...

TOKYO, July 9. /TASS ... also added that the funeral would be organized at Shinzo Abe’s hometown of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The 67-year-old politician was assassinated in the ...

The Kangei Maru, a commercial whaling ship, leaves Shimonoseki port in western Japan on April 21, 2025. (Kyodo) SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi (Kyodo) -- A commercial whaling ship left a western Japanese ...

Japan Whale Meat (Shimonoseki City, Agriculture ... said whale meat is eaten in some whaling towns but rarely in Tokyo or elsewhere in Japan. Whale meat is more expensive than beef or other ...