The season for visiting the beach and searching in the sand at low tide is upon us, so Research Panel?s Day Research asked if people had ever done so, with 137,387 people from their panel answering the question. 70.3% had done so, 28.8% had not, and 0.9% didn?t know what it was. Note that the literal Japanese phrase is ?gathering at low tide?, with the shellfish implied, which might suggest why some people were unaware of the term. Furthermore, 4.1% of the teens who answered the question didn?t know what it was, and a higher percentage of the younger age groups had never done so; specifically almost a half of those in their twenties and thirties.
This is probably not too surprising a result, and furthermore on the television news at the weekend I watched a short item on people gathering them from Osaka bay, but the voice-over pointed out that the shellfish were over the safe limit for some shellfish toxin, so people could swap their haul for edible shells at a stand on the beach!
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