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Fish and Seafood Market In Mexico

Are seen at the Nueva Vuga market octopuses that are offered for sale for the Lent season. on February 13, 2024. In Mexico City, Mexico. Photo by Carlos Santiago/ Eyepix /ABACAPRESS.COM

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Octopus dolls popular as good luck charm for entrance exams

SENDAI, Japan - Octopus dolls are being made at a workshop in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 16, 2014 as a good luck charm for students taking entrance examinations for higher education. "Octopus-kun," a character representing Minamisanriku where octopuses are a staple marine product, has become a symbol of rebuilding the northeastern Japanese town after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The Japanese word for octopus, "tako," sounds like part of a phrase meaning you are "most sought after."

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Fukushima fishermen restart operations

SOMA, Japan - Octopuses caught off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture are put into a radiation measurement device at the port of Matsukawaura, Soma, in the prefecture on Sept. 25, 2013, the day local fishermen resumed commercial fishing suspended in late August due to contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant leaking into the ocean.

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Fukushima fishermen restart operations

SOMA, Japan - Fishermen in Fukushima Prefecture land octopuses and other catches at the port of Matsukawaura, Soma, in the prefecture on Sept. 25, 2013, the day they restarted commercial fishing suspended in late August due to contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant leaking into the ocean.

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Fukushima fishermen restart operations

SOMA, Japan - Photo shows octopuses landed at the port of Matsukawaura, Soma, in Fukushima Prefecture on Sept. 25, 2013, the day local fishermen resumed commercial fishing suspended in late August due to contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant leaking into the ocean.

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Octopuses pick Japan over Sweden

HANNOVER, Germany - An octopus in Hannover on July 13, 2011, picks Japan over Sweden for the semifinals of the Women's World Cup in Germany. Four out of seven octopuses chose Japan while Paul the Octopus II, which ''forecasted'' Japan's victory over Germany in the quarterfinals, picked Sweden.

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Customs raids Kanematsu in octopus tax-evasion case

TOKYO, Japan - Kanematsu Corp. President Tadashi Kurachi apologizes during a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 6 after the Tokyo Customs raided the trading house on suspicion of evading customs duties by falsely declaring the country of origin of imported octopuses from Africa.

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Customs raids Kanematsu in octopus tax-evasion case

TOKYO, Japan - Kanematsu Corp. President Tadashi Kurachi apologizes during a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 6 after the Tokyo Customs raided the trading house on suspicion of evading customs duties by falsely declaring the country of origin of imported octopuses from Africa.

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Octopuses "predicts" Japan rugby team's performance at World Cup

An octopus at a port in Obira, Hokkaido, northern Japan, "predicts" on Sept. 12, 2019, how Japan's national rugby team will perform at the World Cup in Japan, starting on Sept. 20. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Octopuses pick Japan over Sweden

HANNOVER, Germany - An octopus in Hannover on July 13, 2011, picks Japan over Sweden for the semifinals of the Women's World Cup in Germany. Four out of seven octopuses chose Japan while Paul the Octopus II, which ''forecasted'' Japan's victory over Germany in the quarterfinals, picked Sweden. (Kyodo)