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Japanese Sushi Magnate Kicks Off 2019 By Ridiculously Overpaying For Bluefin, Regretting It
A Japanese restaurateur set a record on Saturday by paying nearly $4 million (333.6 million yen) for a massive, 278kg Pacific bluefin tuna at the first auction of the year of Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market, and almost immediately conceded that perhaps he should not have paid that much, Reuters reported.
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Japan Says It Will Withdraw From IWC And Resume Commercial Whaling
Japan announced this week it will be splitting from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in order to renew its commercial whaling practices. The announcement comes after years of Japan exploiting a loophole in IWC’s international moratorium on whale killings, and after the IWC declined to approve its bid for commercial whaling, the Wall Street Journal…
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Japan’s Last Remaining Pager Service Is Officially Calling It Quits
The heyday of the pager is long since over, but the devices themselves have continued to be used for specialised purposes like search-and-rescue teams and emergency workers. In Japan, however, the funeral bells are officially ringing.
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Japanese Nuclear Plant On Emergency Power After Quake, But Little Risk Of Fukushima-Type Event
A Japanese nuclear power station in Hokkaido is operating on emergency power after the region was hit by a 6.7-magnitude quake in the early hours of Thursday morning, Reuters reported. However, though the event carries unsettling overtones of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, authorities say there is currently no danger of any similar…