CANADA-MARKHAM-TASTE OF ASIA-EVENT

CANADA-MARKHAM-TASTE OF ASIA-EVENT

(240629) -- MARKHAM, June 29, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A cook grills squids during the 2024 Taste of Asia event in Markham, Canada, June 28, 2024. The three-day festival kicked off here on Friday. (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

"Stove train" in northeastern Japan

"Stove train" in northeastern Japan

A conductor grills dried squids on a coal stove on a special "stove train" running in Aomori Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 1, 2023, the first day of operation this season. Tsugaru Railway's popular train service will run through the end of March 2024.

Giant squids successively caught along Japan Sea coast

Giant squids successively caught along Japan Sea coast

NIIGATA, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 28, 2014, shows Tsunemi Kubodera, collection director at the National Museum of Nature and Science, explaining the biology of the giant squid in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture.

Giant squids successively caught along Japan Sea coast

Giant squids successively caught along Japan Sea coast

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in January 2014 shows a giant squid that was taken to Ajiro new port in Iwami, Tottori Prefecture after being caught in a dragnet.

Firefly squids glow neon blue on Toyama beach

Firefly squids glow neon blue on Toyama beach

Firefly squids glow neon blue on a beach in Toyama, central Japan, after midnight on April 6, 2016. The female squids, which usually live in deep waters, make their way to shallow waters to spawn every spring and emit the bioluminescent color before dying. The behavior is known as the "suicide of firefly squids" among people in Toyama, one of the few places on earth where the squids can be seen in abundance. The light seen in the background is a lamp brought by people catching the squids. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo