THE JAPANESE picture book “Soratobu medaka” tells the extraordinary tale of tiny stream-dwelling fish called medaka hitching a ride on an obliging bird to a far-off freshwater pool.
Sounds delicious, right? And yet this fish is still highly sought-after in Japan – where you will find it bobbing in tanks outside specialty restaurants – and to a lesser extent in Korea and ...
TOKYO – Japan’s top currency diplomat on Oct 7 issued a warning against speculative moves on the foreign exchange market as the yen fell below 149 per US dollar. “We will monitor currency ...