Kabayaki grilled eel stores and restaurants in Japan attracted crowds of customers on Saturday, this year's Day of the Ox, with many lining up from before opening time in hope of surviving the intense ...

This picture taken on July 28, 2014 shows an employee of a grilled eel restaurant Unatetsu grilling eels over charcoal fire in Tokyo, one day before the eel eating festival. (Photo by YOSHIKAZU TSUNO ...

Children enjoy "unaju," or grilled eels on rice, at a restaurant in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, on July 28, 2023. (Mainichi/Tadakazu Nakamura) NARITA, Chiba -- Restaurants near a famed temple in this ...

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A total of 130 people suffered food poisoning after eating grilled eel dishes, a popular midsummer delicacy in Japan, that were sold last week at a department store in Yokohama, local health ...

AKITA--As part of its summer “Fake Sweets” campaign, Japanese confectioner Kaorudo here is pitching an exclusive treat that it hopes will help people beat the heat and raise a smile or two in the ...

TOKYO -- Grilled eel is a staple of Japanese cuisine, but it might soon become something of a rarity -- this season's catch of juvenile eels is at a record low, and prices have more than trebled.

OSAKA -- How do you make catfish smell and taste like eel? Ask one Japanese professor. Grilled eel has long been traditional midsummer fare in Japan, but this year, some stores will carry a version ...

The prominence of high-rise buildings in the Tokyo metropolitan area almost completely obscures ground-level views of Mount Fuji today. In the past, though, the mountain was prominent on the horizon, ...

This photo proved by Nissin Food Products Co. shows plant-based "mystery eel" that will go on sale on July 18. TOKYO -- As the price of eel -- a popular midsummer treat -- soars amid a decline in eel ...