Think about walking into a restaurant and ordering a meal where just one microscopic mistake in preparation could put you six feet under. This isn't the plot of a thriller novel. It's the reality ...

Picture this. You're holding a knife over a fish that could kill thirty people if you make one wrong cut. Your hands are steady, but one slip means contamination. One nick of the liver means the dish ...

It is bright daylight after three days of relentless downpour in the quiet, far-flung town of Nagato, in the Yamaguchi Prefecture of western Japan. The sun came just right in time to shed light on one ...

Winter is the best time of year to enjoy the fruit of the sea. Pacific bluefin tuna (kuro-maguro), Japan’s most popular red-fleshed fish, is in season, as is the fugu, or puffer fish. Fugu has a ...