Cormorant fishing, a method that involves lighting a fire to lure sweetfish and catching them with tamed cormorants, is today a popular tourist attraction that marks the beginning of summer in Japan.

UJI, Kyoto Prefecture--When masters call out to a flock of Japanese cormorants, the birds return to the bank of a man-made pond, their throats bulging with fish. The scene resembles the traditional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cormorant fishing has been a fishing method in Japan and China for over 1,300 years. Commercially popular fishing methods put the ...

The muddy waters of the Li River churn in the erratic wind that blows in. The weather is unusually inclement for a summer evening. Dark clouds hover above the pointed ridges of the Karst mountains to ...

GIFU -- The annual cormorant fishing season on the Nagara River, with a history of over 1,300 years, began on May 11 in this central Japan city. In recent years, as a measure against the coronavirus, ...