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Leaders of a coastal town in Japan are drawing the ire of some residents after spending $230,000 in COVID-19 relief money on a statue of a flying squid. Squid is king in Noto, a fishing town of about ...

That’s one way to spend your money. After receiving a whopping 800 million yen designed for coronavirus relief, the coastal Japanese town of Noto decided to spend 25 million yen ($228,000) on building ...

Since Japan started setting catch limits for the flying squid 20 years ago, fishermen have never come close to hitting the limit of the quotas. This year, the fisheries agency said it will allow ...