Although the world has its share of strange restaurants you never knew existed, there's a chain of eateries in Japan like no other. Fishing Restaurant Zauo combines the satisfaction of catching your ...

TOKYOTOKYO — Yoshie Minamidani’s heart leapt when she saw the stray tabby cat, a mainstay of the famous Asaichi Dori shopping street in Wajima city on the western coast of Japan. Like the cat, she is ...

Fish out of water don’t last long. But prints of their dazzling scales, pressed into pools of ink, can preserve the aquatic creatures’ forms for centuries. Since the mid-19th century, Japanese fishers ...