TATEYAMA, Japan The late summer heat was no concern for University of Tokyo professor Nina Yasuda and her student research team, who descended on Tateyama, an aging resort town on the southeastern tip of Tokyo Bay, armed with snorkels, flippers, GPS devices and tools for DNA analysis one early September day. Their objective was […]
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Some 60 kilometers off the northwest coast of Fukuoka Prefecture lies the tiny island of Okinoshima. The closest municipality is Munakata city, famous for its fisheries, particularly the abalone and wakame seaweed harvested by ama (free diving fisherwomen) and line-caught fugu (blowfish). Just seven kilometers offshore from Munakata, between Okinoshima…