A Japanese city issued an emergency alert to residents Monday after two people ate potentially dangerous portions of fugu fish that should not have been sold. Five packs of Yorito fugu (blunt head ...

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 ...

Winter is the best time of year to enjoy the fruit of the sea. Pacific bluefin tuna (kuro-maguro), Japan’s most popular red-fleshed fish, is in season, as is the fugu, or puffer fish. Fugu has a ...

Have you ever heard of fugu, the notorious Japanese pufferfish? Containing a potent neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin in its organs, fugu is one of the world’s most dangerous delicacies. In Japan, only ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giant statue of a pufferfish is displayed at Karato fish market in Shimonoseki, southern Japan November 13, 2018. REUTERS/Mari ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fugu is fish to die for. Or from. Which is why very few restaurants in the United States are licensed to serve the delicacy. Shiro of Japan in Westbury, which claims to be the only Long Island ...

A few days after he returned from an official trade mission to Japan in May, Pittsburg’s economic development director Brad Nail gazed down at a freeze-dried package of fugu on his desk. His colleague ...

SHIMONOSEKI, JAPAN (Reuters) - The road, hemmed in on one side by empty warehouses and the other by a concrete seawall, ends abruptly in a desolate parking lot. Men step out of their cars and into the ...