Pages tagged Miyagi
Ishinomaki
Home of Mangokuura, where baby oysters are caught on strings of scallop shell each July and shipped across Japan and to France and the United States.
Kesennuma
A Sanriku bay where oyster farmers planted trees upstream to feed the sea, and whose oysters recovered after the 2011 tsunami destroyed every raft.
How Japan Saved French Oysters
More than five billion Japanese spat, 562 metric tons of Canadian broodstock, and a debt France repaid after the 2011 tsunami. The rescue behind every French cupped oyster.
Matsushima Bay
Oysters from the island-studded bay counted among Japan's three most scenic views, farmed for three centuries and grilled by the thousand each February.
Sanriku
The ria coast of north-east Japan whose oyster seed rescued French farming in the 1970s, and whose farms French growers helped rebuild in 2011.