Reporting from Tokyo — Veteran chef Yutaka Sasaki has a plan to remove the fear of eating one of the most poisonous fish on the planet: He wants to feed it to the emperor. The blowfish, known here as ...

Ordering fugu in Japan means placing your life in someone else's hands. This isn't hyperbole—it's a simple fact. The dish has caused deaths over the centuries, with documented cases appearing ...

For many travelers, part of the fun of exploring the world is trying new-to-them foods that are unavailable back home. Sometimes, that means eating parts of an animal they're not used to or chomping ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s clinical description of tetrodotoxin is as follows: “The consumption of toxic amounts of tetrodotoxin results primarily in neurologic and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you've never heard about the dangers of eating pufferfish, they're more than just urban legend. Although routinely served at ...

ELEANOR HALL: One of Tokyo's top chefs is warning that the Japanese government is risking deadly consequences with its move to de-regulate the serving of a poisonous puffer fish. Fugu or Japanese ...

Delicately sliced and arranged like a crane for this sashimi platter, fugu is pretty as a picture. For some diners, the risk and the myth around fugu-eating is precisely its charm. Photos Provided to ...

My first bite of tora-fugu, the Japanese species of blowfish containing deadly poison in its organs, is the skin. The gelatinous delicacy is thinly sliced like noodles, with seaweed, grated daikon, ...