Ordering fugu in Japan means placing your life in someone else's hands. This isn't hyperbole—it's a simple fact. The dish has caused deaths over the centuries, with documented cases appearing ...

For many travelers, part of the fun of exploring the world is trying new-to-them foods that are unavailable back home. Sometimes, that means eating parts of an animal they're not used to or chomping ...

The seaside city of Shimonoseki in southern Japan has a desirable specialty in the culinary world – the potentially deadly delicacy fugu. Also called blowfish or pufferfish, fugu is available ...

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 ...

A Japanese 10-year-old has become the youngest person authorized to prepare "fugu" pufferfish — a delicacy that can kill if its poisonous parts are not properly removed. Fifth grader Karin Tabira ...