You see, these fish have been washing up since November, for a total of about 20 so far. And Japanese legend says they bring tidings of possible earthquakes in the future. A more scientific explanation is that these fish are generally bottomfeeders, staying at least 1000 metres below the surface, so when they wash up on shore, that's kind of a big difference in depth from what they usually live in. The most viable reason is that there is seismic activity going on at the bottom of the ocean, which uproots them from their habitat and causes them to surface. And this is not the first time Japan has had earthquake, or tsunami, scares for that matter.
In 1923, they experienced a death toll of over 150 000 people, and just recently they held the 15th anniversary of the earthquake that killed at least 6400 people of the eastern port of Kobe... And just this morning (8:00 a.m. in Japan), an earthquake registering at 6.6 on the seismic scale hit just off the central coast of Japan.
So maybe these fish are just legends that the Japanese happen to take quite seriously, but one thing is for sure, Japan is no stranger to natural disasters (it is the most earquake prone region in the world) and any warning is something to go by.
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