Comments on: Tsukiji tuna auctions readmit sightseers – no major rudeness

By: Miss_igirisu

Miss_igirisu — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:42:34 +0000

In the clip where the man says he saw it on BBC news, isn’t the woman next to him Fern Cotton?!

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:59:28 +0000

Thats what I have been wondering too. Why were the dolphins hidden beneath a tarp? I can’t remember if dolphins were the only fish/animals hidden beneath a tarp or not. This was a long time ago.

Choushi in Chiba probably has a fish market which is much more local and less touristy but not sure if tourists are allowed to enter the fish market there or not. They hunt whales off the shores of Chiba Prefecture so you could maybe see whales in the local fish market there. Not sure if they hunt whales/dolphins in Shizuoka though.

By: The Overthinker

The Overthinker — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:29:03 +0000

What I would wonder is if the dolphins were carefully hidden under the tarp so that primary school kids wouldn’t see them….

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:43:15 +0000

I have never been to Tsukiji but been to Spain and seen what it is like to have a holiday resort invaded by drunken trash English men. It is not pretty. When I see what it is like in Spain, it makes me happy that Japan is so far away from UK.

There are quite a few fish markets around Japan which is smaller than Tsukiji which could maybe be better for tourists to go to as there are much less tourists, people and hype there than Tsukiji.

When I was in elementary school I remember going to a fish market in Shimizu, in Shizuoka Prefecture with my school. There was a huge plastic sheet covering something. I then look beneath the cover and saw lots of dead dolphins. I have until this day wondered if the dolphins were caught by mistake in fishing nets or if they were hunted.

By: Klauscore

Klauscore — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:04:04 +0000

This is funny. In which other country would “Rude foreigner takes a flash photograph” make the national news? The Japanese fear of people (especially foreigners) not following all their little rules always amuses me.

I just came back from Australia, if you really want to see rowdy tourists (fighting & puking), go out on a weekend night down there!

By: LB

LB — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:13:11 +0000

You ever tried to work with idiots setting flashes off in your face?

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:31:25 +0000

What’s the issue with flash photography?

By: niels

niels — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:58:44 +0000

Like walking over Kabukicho 2-chome wearing a pink latex outfit?
It sure is a fishy place where they do auctions too, sort of…

By: Montsan

Montsan — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:17:09 +0000

CNN is no longer the bastion of journalism it was presumed to be back in the day. Whether this example is representative of CNN’s decline in quality or the general decline in journalism as a whole is debatable, but I do wish these half-ass reports and reporters were held to the fire more often.

By: The Overthinker

The Overthinker — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:46:20 +0000

I can think of worse walks myself. And better ones. Although if I was going to TDL I would stay near TDL ideally. I can’t believe it’s 25 years already – the first I went there it was its *5th* anniversary…..

By: niels

niels — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:48:44 +0000

That hugely depends on how you go from your hotel to Tokyo disney.
You may stumble over Tsukiji on your way to Tokyo disney…
However, walking from beyond Tsukiji to TD is, well, kinda stupid.
But if you have a free day on your hands… why not.

By: The Overthinker

The Overthinker — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:19:25 +0000

It’s very hard to find a seafood auction in Japan. In fact you can walk around the country for days and weeks and never see one. You have to be actually looking for one – it’s not as if you can go to the Golden Pavilion or Tokyo Disneyland and just come across one.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:30:16 +0000

Are tuna (and other seafood) auctions common in Japan?

By: The Overthinker

The Overthinker — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:49:25 +0000

But curry IS the local food of Japan! The genuine Vermont stuff too, with apples…..

By: LB

LB — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:55:15 +0000

James, can we assume that your use of “elite team of journalists in Tokyo” in reference to CNN was being sarcastic?

They are really horrid. Kyung La should be sent back to LA post-haste – of course, she’d never find work there, but anyway…

I recently saw a CNN article about how the “global economic downturn” was affecting small restaurants everywhere areound the world, and in every little bit of the story either the reporter himself spoke the local lingo, or s/he had a translator along. And every little section also highlighted the local cuisine.

Except for Kyung La’s “report” from Tokyo, where she went to an Curry shop run by an Indian, who was obviously chosen as he spoke English. And she ooh’d and aah’d about how great the curry was, and how she loved to eat there…

They post the little trollop to Tokyo, and she spends her time in curry shops?!? Sheesh.