Eel kabayaki
(July 19, 2012)
July 19, 2012, Tokyo, Japan - Good smell of spitchcock eels whet appetite of passersby at Maruyoshi, a take-out shop specializing in eels in Tokyo's Minowa. Japan consumes roughly 70 percent of the eel available on the market worldwide. The wild Japanese eel was inclued on a list of species at risk of extinction. (Photo by Haruyoshi Yamaguchi/AFLO) VTY -mis-