TOKYO: Sarufutsu village in the far north of Japan’s northernmost island is the nation’s richest village, thanks to a bounty of scallops pulled from the Sea of Okhotsk.
The village – which is closer to the Russian island of Sakhalin than Tokyo – boasts some of the highest average incomes of any town in Japan, thanks to the earnings of some of the fishermen.
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