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There is a scene in a 1977 instalment of the Torakku yarō (Truck Guys) series where the main character is buried in sand up to his neck as a cure for the effects of eating fugu blowfish. The ...

The poisonous puffer fish, which inflates itself into a small balloon when caught, lives in most of the world’s oceans. But only in Japan, where it is called fugu, has it become a national tradition.

Every December, puffer fish get even, well, puffier, as they pack on fat to survive the chilly winter. And that’s when we snatch them up and eat them. In Japan, blowfish, puffer fish and globefish are ...