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 ...

Staff members transfer puffer fish at the Matsukawaura Fishing Port in Soma city of Japan's Fukushima Prefecture in January. AFP SOMA, Japan — The puffer fish filling nets in Fukushima are a delicacy ...

Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is best known as the neurotoxin of the puffer fish, though it also appears in a range of other marine species. You might remember it from an episode of The Simpsons involving a ...

Can't get enough of Japan and its amazing food, with a famous different regional speciality for every region? But thanks to this very obsession we have with Japan, eating around Japan without leaving ...

Chicago folk-punk band Fugu Dugu have built their fan base with raucous, rousing live shows that dazzle indie-rock and folk audiences alike. Their fierce music deftly blends Eastern European ...

This meal could end in disaster - or deliciousness. In Japan, fugu (pufferfish) is a deadly delicacy prepared by licensed chefs with surgical precision. One slip, and it's game over. Join me as I take ...

Butt Breathing Last week’s column ended with the question, “Can we breathe through our butt?” The short answer is yes, but in ...

Pufferfish can be served for human consumption as a delicacy called fugu. It is especially popular in Japan, but you may also see it available in other countries, including Korea, China, Singapore, ...

The fugu or puffer fish is one of the most poisonous creature on the planet with toxins 1,200 times more deadly than cyanide. Barack Obama issues democracy warning to Americans 20 actors who became ...