Some say loneliness made a Japanese sunfish stop eating after its aquarium closed. One expert says it’s probably more ...

Japan is known for its different ... Some will find the idea of eating live fish unpalatable, while others will have prohibitions and aversions to themselves that would prevent them from having ...

Japanese people buy eight times more meat than they did in the 1960s, and in 2007, families began eating it more than fish. But interest in plant-based foods appears to be growing. Japan’s ...

Without its usual crowd of spectators, Kaikyokan’s sunfish essentially started to fall into a deep-sea depression.

Fish have feelings too – at least if a lonesome sunfish in a Japanese aquarium is anything to go by. Animal caretakers at the ...

A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fishtank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed last month for renovations ...

Finally, half an hour later, the door cracks open and, greeted with a soft irasshaimase, or “welcome,” the parties shuffle in to sample one of the rarest dishes in Japan: faux-fish sushi.