Toyama Bay– tag –

At half past noon in Shinminato, the floor of the fish market turns red. Crab after crab goes down on its back, packed shoulder to shoulder across the concrete, until the whole hall looks carpeted. Buyers are already crouching over the r...

Firefly squid, known as hotaru ika (ホタルイカ) in Japanese, is a small bioluminescent squid that Japan treats as a spring delicacy. Toyama Bay is the place most closely associated with it, because every spring huge numbers of females ri...