r/interesting • u/angel_knight79 • 1d ago

Intriguing Kiyoshi Kimura and his effect on Somali piracy

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He was, and is, the owner of Kiyomura Corporation, which runs the Sushi Zanmai chain across Japan. In Tokyo he is known as the Tuna King, because every January he buys the most expensive fish at the first auction of the year at the central market.

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u/Daniel_The_Thinker 22h ago

I mean China does it off the coast of South America so not that big a stretch.

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u/FOKvothe 20h ago

They've had fishing vessels in the Faroe Islands as well. Their fishing fleet is enormous,and that's not even accounting their shadow fleet, where the ships are registered under different flags in order to obscure ownership and country of origin. Taiwan, South Korea, and China are pretty much pillaging every ocean they can sail to. Some of the vessels have literal slave labour on board. Outlaw Ocean goes into how these ships operate.

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u/polon256 22h ago

I don’t have the numbers but wouldn’t South America be closer to China than Somalia is? It’s technically a straight line to South America by sea

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u/dchiculat 22h ago

16.000 km in a straight line from the chinese coast to south american closest, 7.000 to Somalia in a straight line with a rough stimate of 3000 more for going around thailand and such