Woman "squid painter" holds exhibition in northern Japan

Yuka Miyauchi, a painter from southwestern Japan's Kagoshima city who specializes in drawing squid, shows a piece of her artwork painted with squid ink during an exhibition in Hakodate, Hokkaido Prefecture, on Nov. 13, 2015. The northern Japanese city is famous for fresh squid. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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