EGN NEWS DESK
MINAMIBOSO, Chiba Pref. –
Bearing torches that lit up the evening as they swam out into the ocean, Japan’s storied ama prayed for an considerable catch in a ceremony that has been held by these feminine free divers for many years.
Bearing torches that lit up the evening as they swam out into the ocean, Japan’s storied ama prayed for an considerable catch in a ceremony that has been held by these feminine free divers for many years.
This 12 months, nevertheless, many of the 80 white-clad members within the weekend occasion in Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, have been volunteers, as age and disinterest have decreased the variety of girls keen to make a livelihood out of such a diving on this fishing neighborhood.
Japan is dwelling to the world’s oldest inhabitants, and the variety of feminine ama, a Japanese phrase which means sea-diving fishers, fell to only 40 final 12 months within the Shirahama district in Minamiboso, down 70% from 2006, based on a neighborhood fisheries cooperative.
