Topic: Japanese Food and Cooking
A Santa Monica sushi restaurant accused of serving illegal and endangered whale meat is closing its doors. A statement posted on the restaurant's Web site, thehump.biz, says it's voluntarily closing its doors on Saturday. A sushi chef at the high-end restaurant allegedly was caught serving ...
The Japanese government, sushi lovers and seafood traders at Tokyo's massive Tsukiji fish market on Friday cheered the defeat of a proposed ban on trade in endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna. The proposal for a ban on trade in hauls from Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic was crushed Thursday by a UN wildlife meeting in a move described by the European ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A California sushi chef and the restaurant in which he worked have been charged with illegally serving meat from an endangered Sei whale, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, 45, and the parent company of the popular restaurant The Hump in Santa Monica were charged late on Wednesday with violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act which ...
