JAPAN: giant squid filmed for the first time!

Scientists Wen-Sung Chung, from the Queensland Brain Institute at UQ, operated the remote controlled underwater camera craft called "Medusa" that filmed a monster giant squid near the Ogasawara Islands, around 900 kilometres south of Japan. The craft was at about 1000 feet deep

JAPAN: world record size giant trevally

Which is the biggest giant trevally - GT -
(Caranx ignoblis)
ever caught with rod and reel from the shore? Keiki Hamasaki of Kagoshima, Japan caught this monster giant trevally of 75.50 kilo -160 pound not far from his hometown. Casting a popper from the shore on a 130 pound test line, it took him only a little more than 30 minutes to hall the fish in. It beat the previous record, set by